Today students entered the iterative design stage of their engineering projects. By conducting reiterative testing, making observations, analyzing data, and drawing conclusions, they were able to repeatedly return "back to the drawing board" and make modifications and improvements in effort to optimize their gliders for consistent, stable, level flight over a maximum distance.
This required some knowledge of flight dynamics, and so students reviewed the principle components of flight: thrust, drag, and lift, along with the principal axes of motion: pitch, roll, and yaw, completing a Data Table using their own crafts and with reference to this web simulation provided by the Academy of Model Aeronautics's Flight School.
This required some knowledge of flight dynamics, and so students reviewed the principle components of flight: thrust, drag, and lift, along with the principal axes of motion: pitch, roll, and yaw, completing a Data Table using their own crafts and with reference to this web simulation provided by the Academy of Model Aeronautics's Flight School.