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Paper Airplanes KEN BLACKBURN NCASE Atlanta, GA March 2004 Paper Airplanes Who is Ken Blackburn? Basics of Flight Secrets to making great paper airplanes Who is Ken Blackburn Paper Airplanes Guinness Record 27.6 seconds, 10/08/98 World Record Paper Airplane Book Homebuilt Aircraft Moni, Formula 1 Air Racer Boeing Engineer 18 years 100 Years of Flight 24 Years Aircraft Design …  Applies No Matter the Size Structure Forces Of Flight LIFT FLAPSElevator – Pitch/airspeed FLAPSRudder – yaw/turns Wing AngleDihedral BalanceNose heavy is stable Wing Shape Guinness Record - Time Aloft 1 sheet of paper (some tape allowed) Indoors Throw from floor Timed from leaving hand to contact with any object Witnesses and news media Photos and video tape required How I Set the Record Developed the World Record airplane at 13 Set record in 1983 - 16.89 seconds Reset record in 1987 - 17.2 seconds Reset record in 1994 - 18.80 seconds British set record in 1996 - 20.9 seconds Regained record in 1998 - 27.6 seconds The World Record Airplane From The World Record Paper Airplane Book Good Duration and Aerobatic Flyer Paper Airplane Adjustments “Y” Shape - Lateral stability Up Elevator - Prevents nose dive Weight on the Nose - Greater stability * * WWW.PAPERPLANE.ORG 20 Years 34 Years Stability Drag Launch Weight Drag Lift Thrust Lift is from fast air over airfoil Fast air comes from curvature and nose up at an angle Paper airplane elevator keeps nose up at an angle Elevator Most important for low speed turns Paper airplane rudder Bend right to turn right, left to go left Rudder Keeps plane from rolling over AV-8B wings angle down for cross wind in hover 0 mph 500 1200 1600 Supersonic Paper Airplanes KEN BLACKBURN *