Quick Projects - Paper Planes | AMA Flight School

Paper provides a great platform for learning more than Origami; you can create model aircraft that provide hours of entertainment, all while learning basic STE(A)M principles for cheap! These free instructions and included video will teach you to fold a high-performance aircraft design with control surfaces and an adjustable center of gravity required to successfully steer your creation!

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Classroom Activity: Indoor Paper Box Kite

The indoor paper box kite is an exciting, hands-on way to teach STEM concepts to your students (or to make at home just for fun)! This activity

Classroom Activity: Paper Rocket

The paper rocket is an exciting, hands-on way to teach STEM concepts to your students (or to make at home just for fun)! This activity, created

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Editor’s note: This project is part of a NASA grant for which the AMA has partnered with the Children’s Museum of Indianapolis. Jeff helped the

Modeling the Wright 1902 Glider

How to Build the Glastonbury Meadowlark

Fuselage Total length: 111/ 4 inches I. Made from 6- to 8-pound A-grain balsa sheet in two pieces that are later joined around the wing’s center line

Design Your Own Airplane!

Click here or on the image above to design your own paper airplane! Provided by the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum on their flight science

Build a Wing Washout Jig

Originally by Fly RC Staff for Fly RC Magazine When building any model airplane, it is important that the wings have a bit of washout; and if the

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Quick Projects - Paper Helicopters

Helicopters are acted on by the same four forces of flight as airplanes. Lift and thrust are still needed to overcome gravity and drag, but they do it a little bit differently. The pattern included with this activity will let you make your own simple paper helicopter so you can explore rotation as it falls through the air.

Fold to Flight is a free project introducing students to aviation through paper airplanes and other models, enhancing skills and knowledge.

Quick Projects - Paper Planes

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