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Build Your Own Wright Brothers' Glider

Science Scope—November/December 2003

To celebrate the centennial of the Wright brothers’ historic flight, this model airplane activity was developed as part of an inquiry unit on flight. Make your own inexpensive glider and work through the problems the Wright brothers faced in learning to control their early flight models.

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