Build and pilot your own walkalong gliders

About the Author

Foreword

Preface

Acknowledgments

1. Tumblewing

Assembly

Launching the Tumblewing

Keeping Your Tumblewing in the Air

Generating an Updraft with the Paddle

Steer Your Tumblewing

Make Your Tumblewing Fly Higher

Fly Your Tumblewing Indoors

Theory

Experiment 1: Wing Loading of Tumblewings

Experiment 2: Rotation Rate of a Tumblewing

2. Paper Airplane Surfer

Assembly

Trim the Paper Airplane Surfer

Trimming the Paper Airplane Surfer about the Pitch Axis

Trimming the Paper Airplane Surfer about the Roll Axis

Keep Your Paper Airplane Surfer in the Air

Steer Your Paper Airplane Surfer

Make Your Paper Airplane Surfer Climb

Make a Paddle Launcher

Assembly

Launch the Airplane from the Paddle Launcher

Theory

Experiment 1: Paper Grain Direction

Experiment 2: Wing Loading of Different Designs

3. X-Surfer

Assembly

Trim Your X-Surfer

Sustain Your X-Surfer in Flight

Steer Your X-Surfer

Make Your X-Surfer Climb

Theory

4. Jumbo

Assembly

Trim the Jumbo

Sustain the Jumbo in Flight

Steer the Jumbo

Theory

5. Butterfly Glider

Assembly

Trimming Your Butterfly Glider

Flying Your Butterfly Glider

Theory

6. Baby Bug

Assembly

Trimming the Baby Bug

Sustaining the Baby Bug

Theory

Hot Wire Cutter for Thin Slicing Polystyrene Foam Blocks

Assembly

7. More Fun with Walkalong Gliders

Controlling Your Glider, from Takeoff to Landing

Flying Straight and Level (Harder than You Think)

Approaching the Landing Site (Turns Relative to Ground Markers)

Landing Your Walkalong Glider

Walkalong Glider Competitions

Newcomer-Oriented Walkalong Glider Competitions

Types of Competitions

Advanced Walkalong Glider Competitions

Ideas for Presenting Walkalong Gliding

Making Supplies for Building Tumblewings

Getting People Interested

Walkalong Glider Flying Lessons

Demonstrating Walkalong Glider Construction

Conclusion

Glossary

Index