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Finish Flight Synapse Page TWO by adding Key #6: Aeronautics
Construct the “Flight Flexigon”
3. Build a tethered heavier-than-air craft with wing surfaces that react against the air to create lift and drag”
Key #6: Aeronautics
Aeronautics is the science or art involved with the study, design, and manufacturing of air flight–capable machines, and the techniques of operating aircraft and rockets within the atmosphere.
A significant part of aeronautical science is a branch of dynamics called aerodynamics, which deals with the motion of air and the way that it interacts with objects in motion, such as an aircraft.
Imagine you are an aeronautical engineer _
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A major part of aeronautical engineering is aerodynamics, the science of passing through the air. With the increasing activity in space flight, nowadays aeronautics and astronautics are often combined as aerospace engineering.
Aeronautical engineering requires combining skills and knowledge to create a complex machine. To simulate this complexity we will combine the skills of folding paper we have developed building “the box”, “Bug-vinci”, and “Propellers”, to create a
…So here you are a newly graduated aeronautical engineer and you need to design a flying machine. The machine needs to be able to accomplish a very unique mission. You need a machine that is powerful, light, quick, and agile. The list of requirements increases as you investigate the task. Where do you start?
One of the earliest aeronautical engineers, Leonardo Da Vinci, relied on observations of flying creatures as inspiration for designing his own flying machines. In the late fifteenth century, Leonardo da Vinci followed up his study of birds with designs for some of the earliest flying machines, including the flapping-wing ornithopter and the rotating-wing helicopter.
Let’s observe a flying creature. This observation begins in the back yard, in which the greatest aeronautical engineer in the universe, Mother Nature, has created a masterpiece…
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Modern aviation has blossomed into a wide variety of flying machines each adapted to their specific mission, similar to the process which has produced the colorful variety of dogs. Each craft is designed utilizing the principles of flight observed in nature. Lift as perfected by the Albatros. Drag as pierced by the Peregrine Falcon. Thrust as generated by the massive swan during take off. Design as perfected by the Rhinoceros Beetle’s retractable wing system. And of course the propeller as drifts into mind thanks to the magnificent Maple Seed.
Making things wilder
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Robotic bird takes flight
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Now, back to your mission.
Create a flying machine…well more accurately create…
“a tethered heavier-than-air craft with wing surfaces that react against the air to create lift and drag”
Commonly known as a Kite.
The lift that sustains the kite in flight is generated when air moves around the kite's surface, producing low pressure above and high pressure below the wings.
Before you limit yourself by thinking of a standard kite, consider the possibilities…
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So as the engineer you will generate the design to leverage the principles of lift and drag. Thrust will be taken care of by your running legs, and with a good wind lift will get the thing air born.
Building a kite might seem beyond your material means. However, there are so many materials that can be used, and so many designs that can be called a “kite”.
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Look around, look in the recycling bin, and be open to the possibilities, be creative in how you design your “kite”
I have posted pictures of the kites my daughter and I created. We will attempt to fly them as soon as the weather cooperate. I will post an update to see how our designs worked out.
If you don’t have string, perhaps some day at school next year we can get together and try to fly them. I’ll bring the string…
Good luck on this most challenging mission yet.
Mr. Reynolds
“How to make a kite”
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