1. Soar Part 3 Research: Aviation Project
By: Nate Michaud

2. Driving Question Testable Question
How far will different designs of paper airplanes go through the effects of aviation?
IV: Designs with different effects of aviation
DV: Distance of flight
Hypothesis
Using an online simulator, the tests on the computer will be accurate and able to be used in real plane designs.
Reason for chosen topic
I chose to research about airplanes and how they fly because it always interested my curiosity on how they do that. I hope to learn more about how airplanes fly and the effects of flight.

3. Facts about Aviation
The two only things that can fly in real life are planes and birds. The four forces affecting these things to fly are weight, lift, thrust, and drag.
Weight and lift
Weight is basically gravity acting upon the plane or bird and lift is the force that counteracts the weight force so that it can fly.
Thrust and drag
Thrust is the force that moves a plane or bird forward. While drag does the opposite and slows u down. This is why the fastest planes have the lowest amounts of drag.
All of these forces are acting upon the plane or bird in order to keep the object flying up. This topic is most connected to physics since it talks about the forces of the world.

4. The History of Aviation
The Invention of the Airplane
The Wright brothers, Wilbur and Orville Wright, are known for inventing the first successful, controlled, heavier-than-air, airplane with a pilot on board, on December 17, This historical airplane was called the Wright Flyer. Before the Wright Flyer, Wilbur and Orville had created three problems of flight:
(Boyne, 2016)
“1. Those which relate to the construction of the sustaining wings.
2. Those which relate to the generation and application of the power required to drive the machine through the air.
3. Those relating to the balancing and steering of the machine after it is actually in flight.”
These three problems allowed the Wright Brothers to invent this airplane and eventually be called the “fathers of modern aviation”.
Other scientists have added on to the wright brothers invention eventually making commercial jets and military planes.
This is important in the science community today because what the Wright Brothers have done made the people of the world go to greater heights metaphorically and literally. Such as building and inventing the piston engine and the jet engine or going into outer space and learning about astronomy.

5. Aviation in Our Daily Lives
Even though aviation has been around for more than 100 years, we as scientists still use this today. For example NASA uses what the Wright Brothers have researched about aviation and allows for the world to see what part of the universe looks like. Also airline companies such as American Airlines and Southwest Airlines uses the effects of aviation to transport many people at a time from place to place more than 10 times faster than car. The military also uses aviation and airplanes to protect their country and fight back.
The Future of Aviation
Airbus, a future aircraft manufacture , looks into the future and sees a safer more Earth friendly transportation for the people of the world with fewer emissions of pollution and faster ways of transportation.

6. Learning from Aviation
When I grow up, my dream is to be an Aerospace Engineer and I hope that I will use what I have learned about aviation in that job. I will also use the experience that I hope to gain from this project to use as an aerospace engineer like designing and experimenting a 3-D model of an airplane and simulating what would happen in real time. This is important for being an aerospace engineer because I will work with airplanes that deal with the effects of aviation while in the air; and this will be helpful in knowing how that airplane flies and how to fix it.

7. References
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Boyne, W. J. (2016, January 8). History of flight. Retrieved April 21, 2016, from
Future by Airbus | Airbus, a leading aircraft manufacturer. (n.d.). Retrieved April 21, 2016, from
Lucas, B. J. (2014, September 04). What Is Aerospace Engineering? Retrieved April 21, 2016, from
Woodford, C. (2016, February 8). Airplanes. Retrieved April 21, 2016, from