Mini Glider

5cm long glider with an 8cm wing span

Step 1

Things needed
1. Paper
2. Pen
3. Rule
4. Scissor

First: draw the diagram as shown in the image.

Comments

[jjone538]

Great Tutorial

[manskybook]

hate to be grammar police, but it's "you're" done - you know, you + are = you're?

nice little glider

[rawknexstuff]

Grammar police:

"Hate", not "hate".

"Nice" not "nice".

"glider." not "glider"

[jjone538]

@rawknexstuff
how do u do that to ur profile pic?

[manskybook]

So you agree there should be some standards?

[rawknexstuff]

Yes, I do.

[Yandle]

I'll just leave this here.

[lolo11113]

that picture is ugly

[rawknexstuff]

Well played, well played.

[paperairplanecreator]

very nicely played!!

[turbotonic27]

does it fly ?

[yoshi1]

mine didn't

[Metalbox]

Mine didn't either

[patriots8888]

you should add a pdf design that people can print

[czacha42]

if your plane is too light, you can staple the front.
Btw nice work.

[A flyin muffin]

The plane I made was too front heavy. It just did a nose dive.

[dhanveetech]

dose it work

[christpher]

yes it works

[sajithmelaka]

yes

[christpher]

wow this is cool

[lil larry]

nice plane!!! for some reason my plane dives down and rises up, but good job!!! :)

[AngelaGrace]

Mine does it too. Most of the time that is. I just finished it and I think it's cool.

[kcls]

Good photos! Do you still have the original design? Can you scan it in to make it easier to cut out and put together?

[bd5]

I just drew it in Autocad. If you like I can send you a copy (in .pdf if you prefer). Shoot me an email if you'd like a copy.

[doctoradi]

can you please pass me a copy - [e-mail]

[Delo97]

Nice! Now I can spam you!
Just joking, never mind

[rexdino5]

Mmm... Autocad. That things kinda tricky to use. I'm taking a pre-engineering class in my 9th grade right now and the program is very hard to use with triangles... but autocad is a great solution. I'll try it when I get to school tomorrow.

[mcuong20101997]

hello

[soldeir 9]

kewl ! ! all ready to make it, cant wait!!

[DELETED_jorgegunn]

Ohh this is super cool they are soo tiny. I made a PDF too. But i added a little color. Thands for Instructable i would have never thought to just make this but when i saw this i had to try. I made my nose wrapp aroound a little longer

[Edmundo096]

Nice artworks, thanks!

[yamiyobi]

Nice work man they look really cool in the sky!!!

[tictaclad]

thank you!!! i had such a hard time drawing it myelf

[tictaclad]

i didnt think it would actually fly but it did...i threw it hard and it did a fast little loop...big loop for its size

[rexdino5]

Would this work if you make a similar shape but still in the same proportion? As in similar I mean same proportion.

[rawknexstuff]

These planes are perfect size to put a toothpick in the middle.

[legendx]

does it fly?

[ccrome]

Hi there, It's a bit of a mistake to say that the area of paper on each side should be the same. Actually, it should be that the *moment* should be the same each way, and that the plane should balance on the dotted line.

Imagine the plane as a teeter-totter balanced on the dotted line. If you have a very long tail, a very small mass will require a large mass added at the nose to balance it out.

If, as in the example, the tail weighs 0.5cm * 2.6cm, and it is on average 2.75 cm from the center of gravity (CG), the tail's moment is 0.5 * 2.6 * 2.75. (I'm ignoring the actual mass of the paper, assume it's constant).

With a little algebra (well, a lot of simple algebra) you can calculate the needed length. But... in reality, it's probably just easier to make the nose-wrap-around thingy much too long, and trim it until you like how it flys :-)

[DhanushkaYT]

Hey you are right!
The equation to achieve horizontal equilibrium must be applied here.
But it is almost immpossible to measure the weight of the paper. Then
the weight of the paper must be taken as a constant as you said and must be multiplied by the area.

Thanks a lot.

[charmneo]

thank you for the pdf! enjoyed watching my dogs going bizzare at the glider.