How do airplane wings work? | Live Experiments (Ep 43) | Head Squeeze
795HeadSqueezer Garry Lavin shows us how airplane wings work:
How airplane wings work: http://science.howstuffworks.com/transport/flight/modern/airplanes.htm
Amelia Earhart, the first lady to fly solo across the Atlantic: http://www.ameliaearhart.com/
Airplane! The movie facts: http://www.guardian.co.uk/culture/2010/sep/25/30-airplane-facts
James May on why is gets colder as we go higher: http://youtu.be/cimgIhtN-AU
What you need:
Plastic bottle
Bendy straws
Gaffer tape
Scissors
String
Instructions:
Create a square shape with your straws
Create a rectangle shape with your straws
Create a bow-tie/hourglass shape with your straws
Insert the bow-tie shape in to the rectangle
Tape square to the short edge of the rectangle
Take you two litre bottle and insert one side the other
Make two black marks around the centre of the bottle and cut with a craft knife
Gaffer tape bottle to table
Gaffer tape straws to bottle
Tape string one end of the string to the wing and the other end to the plastic bottle
Repeat to create wing on the other side.
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