Timeline for Is it possible to build a paper airplane that will enter a fully developed spin?
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| Mar 13, 2020 at 11:01 | answer | added | Robert DiGiovanni | timeline score: 3 | |
| Jul 10, 2015 at 14:33 | comment | added | Manu H | @DJClayworth RC aircraft would be even better to show such thing, but paper is cheaper and easier to carry inside a teacher's bag (e.g. inside a book) | |
| Jul 10, 2015 at 8:00 | answer | added | Peter Kämpf | timeline score: 12 | |
| Jul 10, 2015 at 3:17 | history | edited | Steve V. |
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| May 8, 2014 at 13:26 | comment | added | RedGrittyBrick | Possibly irrelevant but Towards Disposable Low-Cost Folded Cellulose-Substrate UAVs has some discussion of flight modes in section 3.3. | |
| May 8, 2014 at 0:44 | history | tweeted | twitter.com/#!/StackAviation/status/464204252936941568 | ||
| May 7, 2014 at 21:23 | comment | added | DJClayworth | Balsa wood is probably better than paper. | |
| May 7, 2014 at 20:36 | answer | added | Jae Carr | timeline score: 4 | |
| May 7, 2014 at 20:01 | comment | added | TypeIA | (That said, I am such a student... but I think it would be just fine for an instructor to show me by holding the paper (or model) airplane and talking through the steps slowly, moving the airplane through the motions. This would be really cool for its own sake, but maybe not strictly necessary for educational illustration. The paper airplane is going to move pretty fast, and it will be hard to "see" the crucial concept that the wing(s) are stalled due to high AoA and one wing is stalled "more" than the other.) | |
| May 7, 2014 at 19:55 | comment | added | TypeIA | Awesome question. I'd guess it should be possible, but perhaps not easy. It needs to have just the right amount of pitch authority to keep the wing "stalled" without pulling it into tight loops. It also needs a center of mass slightly forward of the center of lift so that it pitches down in a stall. Then theoretically all you need is a little roll/yaw input (make a flap on the vertical fin). Are you good with paper airplanes? I'm not :) Looking forward to some real answers! | |
| May 7, 2014 at 19:31 | history | asked | Steve V. | CC BY-SA 3.0 |