@peebeenjaye Hi! The tail wing seemed to have the greatest effect on making it fly straight. Also, the more weight you use (depending on the size of the plane), the more smoother it'll fly. I wouldn't put them on the wings because it might be hard to keep the plane balanced. I'd either place it on the front (like in the video) or on the body of the plane in the center of the main wing. Thanks for watching! Let me know how it goes and have fun!!! :)
First! Omg Rich this is so awesome, I am going to go to Michael's and pick up some balsa wood right after our test on Monday and make this! Great job, excellent instructions, as always :-)
@peebeenjaye Not sure if this is too late, but try holding it closer to the tail end (instead of the middle) when launching it. To get it to fly longer you'd probably have the plane bigger or throw it with more force. Perhaps using a large rubber band to launch the plane might help. I thought about adding a screw or nail to the bottom of the plane to use as a place to put the rubber band. GOOD LUCK! Definitely let me know how it turns out!!
Hey thanks! I'm not sure if it would fly well due to the increase weight. You'd need to add an engine like I show in my follow video (but probably one with more power than I show in the video).
the rear horizontal stabilisers are also meant to be slightly angled up to create an stable glide angle this also means the plan must have added weight at the nose
I'm an aerospace major in college and his terminology kills me lol. BTW if you angle the front wing upward slightly the glider creates more lift at a slower velocity so you can glide for longer distances. Don't use the paper clip thing he is using. the flat surface on it tends to slow the glider down due to aerodynamics. Instead, use modeling clay to shape your weight around the front of the glider. Make sure your balance point (center of gravity ) is in the middle of your front wing. To adjust the center of gravity you can add or decrease the amount of clay you have on the front of the plane. Hope this kinda helps. Try different designs too, there are so many possibilities out there.
xQuickScopeFanaticx lol the CG shouldn't be in the middle it should be about 1/3 of the chord back from the leading edge, a CG at half the wing is super tail heavy. Also aerodynamics aren't gonna have much of an effect on something this small. Aerospace major? I think not.
This is glorious, I have been researching "making wood furniture" for a while now, and I think this has helped. Have you heard people talk about - Yanathew Wood Waggler - (Have a quick look on google cant remember the place now ) ? Ive heard some extraordinary things about it and my partner got cool success with it.
xQuickScopeFanaticx...An "aerospace major" who refers to the "front wing"? Please explain where the "rear wing" is. Or would you refer us to the horizontal stabilizer? And what about that "uppy downy thingy" on the rear wing. And the "lefty righty" thingy on the uppy downy rear fin thing?
Actually, you are thinking of powered planes. They need the CG at 1/3 back because they have something called Decalage. What this is, is an offset of CG and stab (horizontal stabilizer) incidence, or angle of attack. The CG must be farther forward than absolutely nessecary and this will make the plane want to nose down, and the Stab must have negative incidence to counteract that. That way, when the plane noses down, it speeds up increasing airflow over the Stab and pulling the nose back up, and when it noses up, it decelerates and the nose falls back down. This must be set properly to maintain the stable flight equilibrium, or else the plane will simple tumble like a falling sheet of paper because the center of lift will change with the pitch causing it to flip over. But a glider is constantly falling, the Stab is always deflecting air, which means that the CG must be moved backward to keep it level. However, as AR (Aspect Ratio) increases, the Jesse art CG will move farther forward, and cap off at about 38% cord, because of how the maths and all that works out.
I'm a Aerospace major. Yeah this guy clearly needs to learn some basic aerodynamic skills. Though I will say, dihedral wings don't increase lift, but they do increase stability (i.e. dihedral effect)
Hi do u know how to make it fly in a straight path inside a room? Also do you have any tips on flying it and where i should put the weight in.. im using pennies for it should i put it on the wings?
@RichsMethods Thanks, also is there a way for it to fly more than 12m? im doing my phsyics project on this and i seem to have trouble hand launching it myself.. any tips on that as well? it would really help! ( due thursday ._. )
Hey, Thanks so much for the video! Ithelped me out alot! Just wondering.. would it fly with the wings being 3/16 instead of 3/32? if so should I change anything else, to keep the proportion the same? Again, Thanks, and any incite into it will be greatly appreciated! :)
hi,I liked your video I have a project in my university of making a glider,I want to ask can you tell me if i want to increase the height of flight then what should i do? and what should i do to make the flight straight,(not like the one one you showed in Bloopers.:P).PLease reply.
It is a great plane, but do may you give me smaller measurements? For example, I want the wings to be 12 inchs onlay, so how can I change the other measurements?
@CreatureCarlForThWin Thanks!! I'm not sure if the 3/16's would change the dimensions. I would assume that it would not. If I were you I'd keep them the same. It might actually fly better because the increased weight might help it fly further (and better). Thanks again for commenting!!
You don;t need weight under the wings; you need some dihedral (upward angle) in the wings.Probably an inch and a half or so for each main panel. That will give it stability and it won't fall off to the side as your model did when it slowed down. And the model should balance fore-and-aft at about 50 percent of the wing chord.
Hey, if you cut the main wing into two panels and build them like a V, maybe 2 or 3 inch higher on every side. You will increase the time of flying a lot.
Flat sheet of Balsa Wood enough to encompass the dimensions in my video, 1/2 inch piece of balsa wood, hot glue gun, binder clip (black thing in the front of the plane for weight).
I just realised - 2:45 I have exactly the same Timex Ironman watch! Anyway, thanks for the *AWESOME* design - is it OK if I use it for my Technology Project?
Consider this: hot glue some screw on the nose of the plane, then put one or more nuts, so that you very precisely adjust center of gravity (CG). It is much easier to adjust proper CG than putting rock or something else. Make sure that on the end you put something elastic, so that accidental hit into something/someone does not make damage to the person or object (some foam, rubber, something soft). What you think about this idea? Cheers, milan ---
+Wild Maniac This seems like a nice idea! Did you (or anyone) try it? If yes, did it help practically? Thanks. (I'll probably try it soon. If it helped (or didn't) , I'll tell it here. :) )
+Aniseed Balancing airplane is mandatory. If nose going up, then stall - this means that tail is too heavy. If nose goes down, nose is too heavy. There are "sweet spot", where airplane want to stay in the air. Just fine tuning. Motorized airplanes should be balanced as well, but this is mostly done with moving battery forward or backward in the battery tray.
D Mather You might have to add a little something that the rubber band could cling onto before you launch it, because you don't want to risk using your tail or something like that as it might split when you pull your rubber band. Nice idea.
give it some Dihedral en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dihedral_%28aeronautics%29 . that is the upward bend in the wing. this is nessasarry for the plane to find its floatability and helps it to always fly stable. try to get the bend to be a angle of 10 to 15 degrees. you will love the effect it has on your plane. be sure to show the results! great work!
Awesome tutorial and easy instructions to follow. I made one today for my nephew and it turned out great. Thanks again.
Thanks for the video ! I have a project coming up tmr and I needed to build a good Glider Thanks so much for the helpful video !
Excellent video!!
Thanks for sharing!!
Thanks for the idea.
Nice idea!
@peebeenjaye Hi! The tail wing seemed to have the greatest effect on making it fly straight. Also, the more weight you use (depending on the size of the plane), the more smoother it'll fly. I wouldn't put them on the wings because it might be hard to keep the plane balanced. I'd either place it on the front (like in the video) or on the body of the plane in the center of the main wing. Thanks for watching! Let me know how it goes and have fun!!! :)
i love you for this! i needed it for a school project and this helped SO MUCH!
Nice! That's awesome.
Super fun to make and too play
Thanks for the video
That's awesome! Have fun.
Thanks for the video! This was really helpful for the project that I'm doing!
...and I loved the bloopers. Those were funny! :)
***** It was fun to make it. Thanks for watching!
thanks, this vid really helped me and my friend.
I needed to do this for a school project too. I like it.
That's awesome. Good luck.
Dude, thanks so much for posting this video! Helped me with my physics project and at a cheap price too! Keep it up!
That's awesome. I didn't think about how it would help people with school projects. Hope it flew well.
I'll test it out later today, but I'm sure it'll do well. :)
love the airplane fly very good
Thanks RichsMethods, used this design for my son's model plane project - was fun building it and the plane flew fantastically well! Thanks again.
Wow that's awesome! Glad to help out. It was fun to build.
Hey thanks for the tip!
Thanks it flys really well
That's awesome! I broke mine, but I'll probably make another one this spring.
Thanks for the info.
Thanks for making this video it has given me an idea of how can I make one 😊😀
Just made this its super easy flys great thanks for the vid
Thanks for the tip.
Dude this is cool
First! Omg Rich this is so awesome, I am going to go to Michael's and pick up some balsa wood right after our test on Monday and make this! Great job, excellent instructions, as always :-)
OMG Rob World :))
tnx men really works
Good sir great teacher your videos really help me to make planes for my projects really sir you are amazing
@peebeenjaye Not sure if this is too late, but try holding it closer to the tail end (instead of the middle) when launching it.
To get it to fly longer you'd probably have the plane bigger or throw it with more force. Perhaps using a large rubber band to launch the plane might help. I thought about adding a screw or nail to the bottom of the plane to use as a place to put the rubber band.
GOOD LUCK! Definitely let me know how it turns out!!
Thank you soo much you helped me a lot with my school project.
I got mine at Michael's. Most craft stores carry it. Even Home Depot or Lowe's might have it.
Hey thanks! I'm not sure if it would fly well due to the increase weight. You'd need to add an engine like I show in my follow video (but probably one with more power than I show in the video).
Thanks, good point.
Ya, I want to do a video on modifications that can be done to the plane. Thanks for watching!
13:35 to make it more aerodynamic when we built these in class, we sanded the nose of the plane and added clay around it
How would it be if we introduce an angle of attack to the wing by cutting the main wing groove at an angle? Will that be helpful?
LOL, you're right. I didn't have one though so I just muddled through it.
@TheJohnradin Awesome. You'll have to let me know how it turn out!
You are really good
Thanks!
That'd be awesome.
the rear horizontal stabilisers are also meant to be slightly angled up to create an stable glide angle
this also means the plan must have added weight at the nose
I'm an aerospace major in college and his terminology kills me lol. BTW if you angle the front wing upward slightly the glider creates more lift at a slower velocity so you can glide for longer distances. Don't use the paper clip thing he is using. the flat surface on it tends to slow the glider down due to aerodynamics. Instead, use modeling clay to shape your weight around the front of the glider. Make sure your balance point (center of gravity ) is in the middle of your front wing. To adjust the center of gravity you can add or decrease the amount of clay you have on the front of the plane. Hope this kinda helps. Try different designs too, there are so many possibilities out there.
xQuickScopeFanaticx lol the CG shouldn't be in the middle it should be about 1/3 of the chord back from the leading edge, a CG at half the wing is super tail heavy. Also aerodynamics aren't gonna have much of an effect on something this small. Aerospace major? I think not.
This is glorious, I have been researching "making wood furniture" for a while now, and I think this has helped. Have you heard people talk about - Yanathew Wood Waggler - (Have a quick look on google cant remember the place now ) ? Ive heard some extraordinary things about it and my partner got cool success with it.
xQuickScopeFanaticx...An "aerospace major" who refers to the "front wing"? Please explain where the "rear wing" is. Or would you refer us to the horizontal stabilizer? And what about that "uppy downy thingy" on the rear wing. And the "lefty righty" thingy on the uppy downy rear fin thing?
Actually, you are thinking of powered planes. They need the CG at 1/3 back because they have something called Decalage. What this is, is an offset of CG and stab (horizontal stabilizer) incidence, or angle of attack. The CG must be farther forward than absolutely nessecary and this will make the plane want to nose down, and the Stab must have negative incidence to counteract that. That way, when the plane noses down, it speeds up increasing airflow over the Stab and pulling the nose back up, and when it noses up, it decelerates and the nose falls back down. This must be set properly to maintain the stable flight equilibrium, or else the plane will simple tumble like a falling sheet of paper because the center of lift will change with the pitch causing it to flip over. But a glider is constantly falling, the Stab is always deflecting air, which means that the CG must be moved backward to keep it level. However, as AR (Aspect Ratio) increases, the Jesse art CG will move farther forward, and cap off at about 38% cord, because of how the maths and all that works out.
I'm a Aerospace major. Yeah this guy clearly needs to learn some basic aerodynamic skills. Though I will say, dihedral wings don't increase lift, but they do increase stability (i.e. dihedral effect)
wow thats cool
Hi, Have you used same Blasa wood for Body part ? Please confirm. Thanks.
Hi do u know how to make it fly in a straight path inside a room? Also do you have any tips on flying it and where i should put the weight in.. im using pennies for it should i put it on the wings?
@frankhuebel For the 12" wingspan, divide all of my dimensions in half that mention on the video.
Hello RichsMethods, Thanks for your input, my question is, can any pdf or other file for this project?
Take your time and it'll work out. Good luck!
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amzing!
@RichsMethods Thanks man! appreciate your quick feedback. Again thanks and keep up the good work!
awsome.. but tell me which are the measures of the body of the 12 inch one? i need to make one of this for a phisics project please help me..
@RichsMethods Thanks, also is there a way for it to fly more than 12m? im doing my phsyics project on this and i seem to have trouble hand launching it myself.. any tips on that as well? it would really help! ( due thursday ._. )
Hey, Thanks so much for the video! Ithelped me out alot! Just wondering.. would it fly with the wings being 3/16 instead of 3/32? if so should I change anything else, to keep the proportion the same? Again, Thanks, and any incite into it will be greatly appreciated! :)
Very nice plane! Could you make a video on how to make a rubber band powered plane please? Thank you
can i use polystyrene to do that or any other recommended???
hi,I liked your video I have a project in my university of making a glider,I want to ask can you tell me if i want to increase the height of flight then what should i do? and what should i do to make the flight straight,(not like the one one you showed in Bloopers.:P).PLease reply.
Yes. Actually quite well.
could you do a video using metric measurements please, since i live in Australia?
i love balsa wood cuz its cheap and u can do a lot of things with it if u have an imagination
Nice. I might use 4 small washers on the front for the main body weight.
Good idea! Sorry for the late response, ha.
thanks, good work. gracias amigo buen trabajo y bien explicado me bastó con mirar las medidas y me será muy fácil de hacerlo, gracias por compartir
De nada.
@delaupster Good tip. I might add this to my video. Thanks!
It is a great plane, but do may you give me smaller measurements?
For example, I want the wings to be 12 inchs onlay, so how can I change the other measurements?
Around 50 -100 feet. It depends on how balanced it is.
@CreatureCarlForThWin Thanks!! I'm not sure if the 3/16's would change the dimensions. I would assume that it would not. If I were you I'd keep them the same. It might actually fly better because the increased weight might help it fly further (and better). Thanks again for commenting!!
It was from the same large piece I cut the wings from. I believe I mention this in the video.
You don;t need weight under the wings; you need some dihedral (upward angle) in the wings.Probably an inch and a half or so for each main panel. That will give it stability and it won't fall off to the side as your model did when it slowed down. And the model should balance fore-and-aft at about 50 percent of the wing chord.
awsome video helping me alot!!just want u to make a rubberband powered glider! but thanxx, 10xxx & tanx a lot!!!!!!!!!
Duuude, i love your video, I was just wondering if its possible to build it with normal wood?
Use a smaller or sharper knife, but be careful! Also, take your time making the cuts.
super cool rich. you and robh0629 rock!!!!!
how far does it fly? im doing it for school and it has to fly a minimum of 8 metres...
@ringman28 Hey Thanks! It is a lot of fun. Best part, if you break it you can easily fix it.
My wood is always braking when i try to make a hole for the wing in the front. What do i do????
Hey, if you cut the main wing into two panels and build them like a V, maybe 2 or 3 inch higher on every side. You will increase the time of flying a lot.
were did u get the first balsa wood plane?
Hi dude....it's cool...I like it....
is it able to be launched from a catapult
What is the gliders mass?
Can u use foam to make it
What would the dimensions be for a 12" wingspan balsa wood airplane?
Flat sheet of Balsa Wood enough to encompass the dimensions in my video, 1/2 inch piece of balsa wood, hot glue gun, binder clip (black thing in the front of the plane for weight).
what is the length of the fuselage
I need to do this for my school project it's damn hard
you sir, are giong to be a UA-cam celebrity! or maybe you'll even get your own TV show! ^.^
ita awsome sent my some updates
I just realised - 2:45 I have exactly the same Timex Ironman watch!
Anyway, thanks for the *AWESOME* design - is it OK if I use it for my Technology Project?
Sure you can use my design. I also still have the same Timex watch. ha
does it fly
I'd say around 40-50 feet. I haven't perfected it yet though.
is it 1and a half inch body or 1 1/2 inch
Hey guys i also need balsa wood but I don't know where to get it from a
Consider this: hot glue some screw on the nose of the plane, then put one or more nuts, so that you very precisely adjust center of gravity (CG). It is much easier to adjust proper CG than putting rock or something else. Make sure that on the end you put something elastic, so that accidental hit into something/someone does not make damage to the person or object (some foam, rubber, something soft).
What you think about this idea?
Cheers,
milan
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+Wild Maniac This seems like a nice idea! Did you (or anyone) try it? If yes, did it help practically? Thanks. (I'll probably try it soon. If it helped (or didn't) , I'll tell it here. :) )
+Aniseed
Balancing airplane is mandatory. If nose going up, then stall - this means that tail is too heavy. If nose goes down, nose is too heavy. There are "sweet spot", where airplane want to stay in the air. Just fine tuning. Motorized airplanes should be balanced as well, but this is mostly done with moving battery forward or backward in the battery tray.
Thanks everyone I like it I , made one it was awesome I appreciate it
Good luck! Thanks for the comment.
How far does it fly?
How about using a large rubber band to launch it? It should be quite easy and get you quite a bit of distance in the flights
D Mather You might have to add a little something that the rubber band could cling onto before you launch it, because you don't want to risk using your tail or something like that as it might split when you pull your rubber band. Nice idea.
Can I put an egg on it and still have it be balanced
give it some Dihedral en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dihedral_%28aeronautics%29 . that is the upward bend in the wing. this is nessasarry for the plane to find its floatability and helps it to always fly stable. try to get the bend to be a angle of 10 to 15 degrees. you will love the effect it has on your plane. be sure to show the results! great work!
With 'blooper reel' it looks like the wings are warped that's why it's rolling right? - Right? !!
Can I put a motor with propellers? *.*