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MAKE THE CELEBRATION OF FLIGHT A YEAR LONG EVENT – EVERY YEAR!
DELTA DART POWERED AIRPLANE
AVIATION AS A TEACHING TOOL
MATH, SOCIAL STUDIES, SCIENCE, & ENGLISH CAN USE THE DELTA DART PROJECT TO MEET CURRICULUM GOALS.
MATH
- TIME-SPEED-DISTANCE
- ANGLES
- GEOMETRIC SHAPES
- AREA
- PERIMETER
- GEOMETRY PROOFS
SOCIAL STUDIES
- AVIATION HISTORY
- PIONEERS IN AVIATION
- ECONOMIC IMPACT OF FLIGHT
- SOCIAL IMPACT OF FLIGHT
- WHAT EVENT OCCURRED IN AVIATION DURING THE PERIOD BEING STUDIED
SCIENCE
- FORCES OF FLIGHT – LIFT, WEIGHT, THRUST, & DRAG
- NEWTON’S LAWS OF PHYSICAL MOTION
- BERNOULLI’S PRINCIPLE – FLUID DYNAMICS
- MEASUREMENTS – METRIC – U.S.
ENGLISH
- READ THE JOURNALS WRITTEN BY THE WRIGHT BROTHERS
- WRITE A JOURNAL ABOUT THE CONSTRUCTION OF THE DELTA DART
- DO A POWER POINT PRESENTATION ON HOW TO BUILD A DELTA DART
- WRITE ABOUT EXPERIENCE OF BUILDING AND FLYING THE DELTA DART
- SENIOR RESEARCH PAPERS – NOT DIRECTLY RELATED TO DELTA DART
PROJECTS THAT WORK
- WHITEWINGS
- DELTA DARTS
- PENNY PLANES
- SCIENCE OLYMPIAD WRIGHT STUFF
- FOAM PLATE GLIDERS
- OREA FOAM PLATE GLIDER - NASA
- HOT AIR BALLOONS
- LTAV CHALLENGE
- MODEL ROCKETS
- WATER ROCKETS
- KITES
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