Flying+Machines+and+Flight

=Those Magnificent Men and Their Flying Machines.=

This display complements the Middle Syndicate's study of flight. Blow across the paper airfoils and see Bernoulli's Principle come to life. Finding it all a bit difficult to understand? The display reinterprets flight forces at work by using human examples of drag, resistance, streamlining and lift.

= = =__Leonardo da Vinci__=
 * [[image:P1070753-1.JPG width="279" height="190" caption="Leonardo lives!"]] || [[image:P1070785-1.JPG width="278" height="169" caption="Eli creating aileron lift"]] ||
 * [[image:P1070752-1.JPG width="274" height="238" caption="Human flight forces"]] || [[image:explain.gif width="263" height="254" caption="Move your ideas sky-high!" link="Flying Machines and Flight"]] ||

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 * Make the Mona Lisa smile.
 * Use Leonardo's feather quill to write some mirror writing.
 * Make your own glider.
 * In trouble for day-dreaming in class? Leonardo has the perfect answer!


 * Visit: Universal Leonardo: http://www.universalleonardo.org/**

=__Why Does It Fly?__=

**Easy hands-on activities investigating the forces of flight:**

 * [[image:yoftop.gif link="http://Visit:%20http://entertainment.howstuffworks.com/"]]
 * Visit:** **[|www.fi.edu/flights/own2]** ||

Find out how all the things below use air pressure and shape to create lift and flight. Also use the site to check out airplanes, blimps, skydiving, kites and helicopters. There are short videos to explain many of them. Using the search bar on the site.
 * Visit:** http://travel.howstuffworks.com/airplane.htm. Find what you are looking for by

=__Theories of lift? Who is right? (tricky stuff!)__=
 * [[image:forces.jpg width="193" height="193" caption="Birds"]] || [[image:hang-gliding-takeoff1a.jpg width="228" height="200" caption="Hang glider"]] || [[image:boomerang-leading-edge.jpg width="184" height="210" caption="Boomerang"]] ||
 * [[image:space-shuttle-launch3a.jpg width="194" height="200" caption="Space shuttle"]] || [[image:hot-air-balloon-1.jpg width="224" height="194" caption="Hot air balloon"]] || [[image:aeroscraft-3.jpg width="218" height="197" caption="Aeroscraft"]] ||


 * Explore:** **http://www.grc.nasa.gov/WWW/K-12/airplane/index.html**

If you have a passion for airplanes this site is worth a visit. Don't be put off by the maths scattered around - you don't need to understand it to get the ideas! The site has some useful links to hands-on flying activities plus some rather complicated looking flight simulators where you can play with air flow over different shaped wings. (as well as lots of other interesting things!):
 * WARNING!** This is a more difficult site which illustrates the fact that lift is a very complex topic!
 * [[image:bernoull.jpg width="371" height="209" caption="Bernoulli's Theory"]] || [[image:airplane-pressure.gif width="269" height="223" caption="Newton's Theory"]] ||  ||
 * [[image:explain.gif width="297" height="287"]]
 * A fantastic site with lots of links relating to flight

http://www.sciencetoymaker.org/index.html** || Visit World Record Holder Ken Blackman's
 * excellent** paper airplane site:
 * http://paperplane.org/**

Scroll down his links to: __**The Paper Airplane Flight Simulator.**__ ||
 * Paper Airplane Links**
 * Workman's Paper** **Airplane Club**

__Build a plane__

 * Mission:** To rescue a famous explorer bitten by a snake in the jungles of Borneo.
 * http://www.nms.ac.uk/planebuilder.aspx**

__Fly a hot air balloon__

 * http://www.uftm.org.uk/balloonchallenge/**