Tuesday, January 10, 2012

What have you learned from the Glider project

I'd learned about the first glidder made by the Wright Brothers. There was the glidder of 1900, 1901, 1902, and 1903. The glidder I had more experience on was the Glidder of 1903. We learned a lto about the pitch & pitch axis. The roll & roll axis, yaw & yaw axis, and center of gravity. I learned that to do a example of a glider is very hard. To do an example you have to take good measurements or it wont turn out good.

On December 17, 1903, Orville Wright piloted the first powered airplane 20 feet above a wind-swept beach in North Carolina. The flight lasted 12 seconds and covered 120 feet. Three more flights were made that day with Orville's brother Wilbur piloting the record flight lasting 59 seconds over a distance of 852 feet.
                                                 This was the Glidder of 1903, first flight.

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