Tinker Lab on Flight (Part 2: History)

Hello again guys! Today I am continuing my tinker lab on flight.
This time, we'll talk about famous flyers and other gliders.

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So let's get to the first flyer, Amelia Earhart!

Amelia Earhart was the first woman to fly solo across the Atlantic.  She only had a can of tomato juice and a chocolate bar stocked in her single engine Lockheed Vega.

HOW CRAZY IS THAT?!?!?!

She took off at the coast of Newfoundland. During her flight, her altimeter stopped working. Then, her wings and windshield started to freeze over in a awful ice storm! To make the ice melt, she flew awfully low. After 15 hours of flying, she landed in a meadow in Northern Ireland, startling a farmer and his cows. She had flown 2,026 miles away from where she took off and became famous for her skill and bravery.

Now let's talk about the Wright Brothers.
 Orville and Wilbur Wright were  the creators of the first successful airplane.
In their plane, the pilot was supposed to lay on his stomach on the bottom wing and steer with an apparatus attached to his hips, while the engine was running. Even though the first flight lasted 59 seconds, they became famous for making the first working airplane.



Wright brothers testing the plane.

Bessie Coleman was the first female African American to have a pilot license. She had to walk 4 miles to school every day and she studied very hard. Since she couldn't get into flight schools in America, so she went to France and got her pilots license there. Then she returned to America and became a barnstormer stunt pilot. After she became a stunt pilot, she was known as "Queen Bess." (But she didn't rule over anything! Of course she didn't because America is free!!)



Queen Bess, the famous barnstormer.

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Two famous gliders were made by George Cayley, and Tito Livio Burattini.

 George Cayley found out about the 4 forces of flight (Remember the last post?) and came up with a concept for a modern airplane. It was able to fly a 10 year old boy down a several yard downhill slope. It became known as the "boy carrier."

Tito Livio Burattini was a Italian scientist that invented a glider that looked kind of like a dragon. It had 4 glider wings and was able to carry a body, but not a human body. Do you know what it was?



A. Dog
B. Cat
C. Hamster
D. Easter Bunny

Write your answer in the comments. I'll tell the answer in the next post.

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I hope you guys liked the post. If you did, then please poke that like button. In the next post, I will be talking about my gliders and paper airplanes. I will see you in the next post. BYE!! <3

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Tinker Lab about Flight (Part 1)

Aloha! Today I going to talk about my fourth tinker lab that is all about flight! I got to make a ton of stuff!

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Flying isn't just trying to strap  on wings your arms. It's not like Daedalus and Icarus escaping captivity by strapping wax wings to their backs. Yet, thanks to inventors failed attempts, we have learned a ton of stuff about airplanes.

Anyway, it takes forces of flight to make an airplane fly. Those forces are thrust, drag, lift, and gravity. Thrust makes the aircraft fly forward. The aircraft engine creates the thrust. Drag, created by air, slows the plane down.  Lift, created by the wings, makes the plane go up. Finally, gravity makes the plane go down.

Now lets get to my first project, it's called, "An Uplifting Experiment."

I had to cut a piece of notebook paper into a small rectangle. Then, I curled the paper to make it curl down. Finally, I put the paper next to my lips and blew air over the paper. That made it rise up! I did it the opposite way and it curled down! How did it happen? Lift happened!

It happened thanks to Isaac Newton's third law. "For every action, there is a equal and opposite reaction." If a balloon is filled with air and you let it go, the air goes down (The action.) and the balloon goes up. (The reaction.)

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Now let's talk about "biomimicry." It was used long ago when inventors were making flying machines. They were making machines with flapping wings. I read about the mechanical bird and Leonardo Da Vinci.

Da Vinci's early wing design.

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My next project was called "Designer Gliders."

First, I folded a piece of paper in half and cut out a pair of wings and a tail (I tried a bat wing design.). Next, I stuck them on a glider body with some sticky foam. Last, I put a piece of clay on the end to finish the glider. When I launched it, it didn't glide well. I made one for Tessa too.

My rubber band launcher.

My bat glider.

Tessa's butterfly glider.

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I hope you liked the post. In the next post, I will be talking about famous flyers and some more gliders. (That did work! :-) )
Bye!