Easy Paper Airplanes
Here's a really fun activity for a birthday party or a project for a classroom. If you use it for a birthday party, make a game out of it. See who can make their plane fly the best, keep making adjustments and the winner gets a prize. If you use this for a classroom project, the discussion that follows is great for learning to understand gravity, lift, drag, and thrust. You Read Full Story
If you are looking for a fun activity to do with your kids then you should consider the lost art of making paper airplanes for kids. For sure, you and your child will have lots of fun designing and ultimately taking your creation to flight. For your kid, the activity will be a welcome respite from playing video games on the PC, Wii or Playstation. For you, it will be a chance to relive the glory days of your childhood when it all that matters is to create cool looking paper airplanes for... Read Full Story
When you end up staring at the 2-page download that features the new Skyaak DIY ‘deuce’, you might think it appears incomprehensible at first. How, you will likely ask yourself, does such a strange-looking diagram end up getting formed into a ‘ring-ring’ glider? I’d be the first to admit that it is quite counter-intuitive at first glance. Most people really find it quite confusing and just plain weird at first. It’s hard to figure out how to put it together at first because it is just such... Read Full Story
If you live anywhere near Pueblo, Colorado, you might want to check out a fun paper airplane contest sponsored by The Pueblo Chieftain and the Pueblo Historical Aircraft Association.
Here are the details:
What:
It's the 12th Annual Fly Pueblo Paper Airplane Contest
When:
Taking place at 10 am on June 9, 2007. Sign up and practice begins at 9am sharp!
Where:
It takes place at the Weisbrod Read Full Story
By Louis Templado, Staff Writer of the Herald-Asahi
There's something about spring that brings out all manner of madness in people. How else to explain the small army of archers--or that's what they looked like from a distance--pirouetting skyward on the lawn of Tokyo's Mizumoto Park in Katsushika Ward on April 15?
photoHand-launch competitor Satoru Hoshino checks his plane's alignment. (Louis Read Full Story
Kids gathered around the second floor of the Eau Claire library in Eau Claire, Wisconsin, today to test their talents and this is a talent - paper airplanes.
A paper airplane contest at the L.E. Phillips Memorial Public Library had children of all ages involved. A panel of judges marked points for airplane distance, loops and look among other things.
Chrissy Knoelke, a youth librarian, said the Read Full Story
I got this great tip from one of my favorite paper airplane people, Uncle Dean who runs the Paper Airplane Museum. Did you ever wonder about the Wright Brothers and how they got the brain twirling in the direction of making flying machines? Here's a little known fact and something you can attempt to do too.
Make the WRIGHT KITE! Keep reading to get the downloadable instructions...
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Easy Paper Airplane
After a few months of basically re-doing the Easy Paper Airplanes website, it is now up and running and full of great, and I mean great info. What I used to sell as an ebook for $19.95 is now all on the website for FREE!
You can also download 10 beautiful and simple to make easy paper aiplane designs by signing up for my newsletter. Wait till you see them!
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I’ve been making paper airplanes for about 30 years. As a kid I loved to make them. They are easy to make using simply one piece of paper and if it breaks, you just make another one.
Now I am older and have 3 boys of my own. One day they came and asked me to make one for them. So I began to create the same one that my dad built for me many years ago. After throwing it around the room, the top of the stairs and off the deck, I began to wonder what other kinds of airplanes I could make... Read Full Story
There's more to blowing bubbles than meets the eye... Teachers, here's something you can do in your classrooms!
This is a wonderful project contributed by teacher, MaryAnne Nelson at Needham Elementary in Durango, Colorado, that will introduce kids in grades 4-9, to aerodynamics.
Overview
Bubbles are not only captivating, colorful, and fun to make, they are also excellent demonstrations of Read Full Story
