1. Air planes fly! fly! fly!
Science expo project

2. Problem
How does wing span
size affect the flight
pattern, time aloft and
distance traveled

3. Hypothesis
The 501 familiar will fly farther and have more time aloft

4. Materials needed
• Whitewings Paper Airplane Kit by Dr.Yasuaki Ninomiya.
• Whitewings Paper Plane Design Racer 501 Familiar.
• Whitewings Paper Plane Design Racer 501 Familiar enlarged 25%.
• Whitewings Paper Plane Design Racer 503 Elliptic.
• Whitewings Paper Plane Design Racer 503 Elliptic enlarged 25%.
• Four sheets of stock paper using the back (plain) side of the non-used paper airplane
models in the Whitewings Kit.
• Titanium Scissors
• Office Depot hard plastic Ruler
• Hobby Town USA Insta-cure+ cyanoacrylate
• Protractor
• Stop Watch on Apple I-Phone
• Sears 25 foot Tape Measure
• Pencil and pre-printed blank data charts
• Canon MG6220 Photocopier
• An Assistant
• A Clip Board
• Blue 1 inch Masking Tape
• 1 roll of Scotch Tape
• Whitewings Manual
• 4 sheets plain white 8 ½ x 11 size copy paper

5. The experiment

6. Results
The hypothesis was proven wrong
Because the 503 flew farther and longer

7. Websites
http://www.sciencebuddies.org/science-fair-projects/project_ideas/
Aero_p009.shtml
http://www.pilotfriend.com/training/flight_training/aero/gliding.htm
http://www.exploratorium.edu/exploring/paper/airplanes.html