3/4C - 2004 Great Fly Off

We hope you enjoy reading about our designs.

We have some great designers in our grade.  Larry is ready to help you with a few ideas

For a look at one of our paper plane designs, click here.

Click here for the results of our first fly off. As the grade 4's were on camp we did this one  with only the grade 3 children in our grade.

 Here we are with our paper planes ready for our first great fly off. We spent a few weeks making them and we even wrote instructions on how to make them. We've had a few practice flying sessions around the classroom and annoyed everyone by flying planes inside. Now we get to really fly them!
Hi I am Rory and this guy is Matt. Rory is on the right and Rory is holding the plane in front of me so you don't get to see me. Ohhhh and little nipper is in Matt's plane. Can you find him? We are getting ready for a fly. We are going to fly them off our balcony. We have to measure how far the planes went.          

 

 

 

 This is a picture of the class just before the fly off. As you see Harriet is the one at the back with the scarf on. Riley  is the one  that is at the front with the headband on sitting right next to Suresha .This is with all the gliders. Some people handmade their gliders. They came in big and small. Some people made small gliders that went very far. Everyone is going to have fun.
This is a picture of Georgie and Jess ready to fly our planes in the great fly off. Jess's plane did not go very far. This is how long her plane went -4.58m. Georgie's plane went 6.50m so it wasn't too bad. The great fly off was very enjoyable for everyone and it was a fantastic day!! Riley's plane went the farthest out of the girls group. This is how far her plane went 11.35m. The slowest plane was Jess's super glider 2000. But that did not matter as the most important thing was that we had a lot of fun at the great fly of 2004.  

 

 

Here is Kyle N at the front with the measuring tape, Zach B next to him Ryan T at the back and he is the tallest. Emerson L is on the left. Anyway next to him at the back is Josh G. We are holding the measuring tape and as the girls throw their planes we will see how far they will get! 

 
Me and my friend Matt are recording the  flying distance. The farthest plane was Zach's. He got 19.1m. The farthest girl's plane was Riley's at 11.35m. The lowest boy was Rory with 3.83m. The lowest girl was Jessica with 4.58m.Their planes did a nose dive!

 

This was when it was Suresha's go. She got 9.5m. before it was Suresha's turn it was Jessica's and she got 4.58m   The girls went first and the boys went second. It was fantastic and exciting for the whole grade.

 

 

 
Now the first boys turn is Josh R. We have chosen the new building to fly off. It is a great start to 2004. Josh got 7.10m the next person to fly is Rory C as you can see the boy didn't drop his plane what a relief Josh's plane is called the dart. Mr Crabb and many grade fours couldn't make it so we have Mrs Orchard as a substitute teacher. We took 45 photos these are just some of them.  

 

Claire and others used the metre wheel to measure how far the gliders went when the tape measure couldn't reach.

 

Names

Hang time

Flight distance

Larry P

1.92 seconds

8.00 metres

Daniel N

2.31 seconds

9.75 metres

Kirilee H

1.38 seconds

7.30 metres

Shannon P

1.54 seconds

6.50 metres

Josh D

2.32 seconds

6.60 metres

Bronte C

1.62 seconds

4.51 metres

Daniel K

1.62 seconds

9.75 metres

Rachel E

1.19 seconds

7.50 metres

 

 

 

 

 

Hi my name is Daniel N. My plane went 9.75 centimeters my best friend's plane went the same as I went. My plane was the highest for the grade fours but a grade three, called Zach, his plane went 19.1 metres.  That was the furthest for the grade 3 and 4 level

My plane went reasonably well. I lost the most

Hang time by a microsecond.  My hang time was

2.31.  The guy who beat me in hang time was Josh D.

 

Hi my name is Josh D. My plane, which I specially designed, didn't do as good as I thought it would. In the end my plane went 6.60 meters and 2.32 for hang time. The highest for the grade 4's was Daniel N and Daniel K, both getting 9.75 meters. Out of the whole grade Zach B's plane went 19.1 metres which beat all of us. In all, the grade 4's I came 4th in order from first to last.   

 
Hi I am Daniel.  My plan went the same as the other Daniel.  It  went the same as me, 9.75 metres. So Daniel went the furthest in grade 4 in 3/4c Kirilee' Shannon ' Larry' Bronte 'Josh and Rachel my hang time was 1.62 sec.       

Hello my name is Larry and I came 2nd in the great fly off. I am very very good at making planes. I created 3 airports for the the Great Fly Off. I made 30 models and they are very good. My plane went 8 metres and 1.92 sec for hang time. I hope I do better next time.  
Hello my name is Kirilee. In the Great Fly Off my plane went 7.30 metres and I came 4th out of  eight people. My hang time was 1.38 seconds. I have 5 planes in my airport and they are all bad. The plane I flew was called Star Shooter. It is my best plane I  have.  

 

Hello my name is Shannon and I came 6th. My plane flew 6.50 metres. In hang time my plane flew 1.54 seconds I have 2 planes at home and 2 planes at school. In grade 4 there are eight people. The people's names in grade 4 are Daniel.N, Larry.P, Kirilee.H, Josh.D, Bronte.C, Daniel.K and Rachel. E.

 
Hello my name is Bronte and I came 7th. My plane flew 4.51 metres and my hang time was 1.62 seconds. I have three planes at school and 2 planes at home. In grade 4 there are eight people. The people's names in grade four are Daniel. N. Larry. P. Kirilee. H. me Bronte.C . Daniel. K. Josh. D. and Rachel. E. that is all.  

Hello my name is Rachel and for the great fly off I made a plane I called it wind Catcher. It flew 7 metres and 50 cm the time it flew was 1.19 seconds. I came third and there were two people came first they are Daniel N, Daniel K,  Larry came second Kirilee came fourth, Josh D came fifth Shannon came sixth Bronte came seventh.