In Ms. Giroux’s seventh grade technology class we made paper airplanes and learned about the forces of flight and why they stay in the air. I made a few different types of paper airplanes. My first was a traditional paper airplane and it flew fine but it always landed in the dirt. My second paper airplane was a ring shaped paper airplane called a Ring Wing Glider. It was cylindrical and flew really well. We learned about why our paper airplanes stayed in the air. Our paper airplanes stayed in the air because of four main forces. Thrust pushes the airplane forward and is the strength you use to throw the paper airplane. Lift is the air under the wings that forces the plane upward rather than down. If the plane’s center of gravity is not centered the lift either pushes the plane too far up, or straight down. Drag is the air pushing against the plane that slows it down. Gravity pulls it back down to have a smooth landing. In my next wood model I want to make sure my the center of gravity of my plane is in the middle of the fuselage and the rear, I want to have a pointy tip, and I want to make sure my wings are slightly bend up