Original vs. Alternated Flight Investigation

Overview:
We wanted to test the difference between the original airplane (from the airplane kit) that we built, and an altered version. In the altered version, we took away the landing gear that got in the way when the plane landed and we made the latter glider stiff instead of the original floppy glider.

Results:

Time of Original vs. Variation


Distance of Original vs. Variation


From this, I concluded that the taking away of the landing gear didn’t affect the distance of flight very much. The landing gear actually helped the plane stop on the ground. When we took the landing gear away, we thought that the plane would glid on the grass more, thus increasing the distance.

Photos:



Original: the pink and blue plane
Altered: the orange plane