How to make a glider with your own hands

Clever parents will always come up with a useful lesson for their children, yes, such that from then on the child will not be dragged away by the ears. The boy is best to give in the hands of carpentry tools and wood, offering to create something interesting. And what could be more interesting than creating a flying glider?

Glider yourself: the arsenal

Choosing a tree, the easiest way is to take the pine. Paper is needed for pasting surfaces, it is better to take tissue paper. The PVA glue is more suitable, the thicker the better. Eraser ("Hungarian") is needed to connect the removable parts and for the motor. A sharp shoe knife is the main tool. Manual jig saw is absolutely necessary for cutting out curly details. Many of them will need to be pre-processed before manufacturing, so without the participation of serious machine tools can not do.

Start

First, you need to explain to the boy how to handle a knife and a jig saw. Safety in this case is not particularly useful, to study it it will still be a trial and error method. Also, you should briefly outline the overall work plan and the expected result. Knowing what will happen in the end, he will do his best to make a glider with his own hands exactly as his imagination draws.

Design

The basis of the glider will be a wooden rack with a width of 7-10 millimeters and a length of 800-1000 millimeters. The wings are made in the form of a central horizontal section of 600 millimeters long and 100 millimeters wide and two curved "ears" with a length of 150 millimeters. The wing structure is simple. It consists of two laths five by five millimeters in cross section, passing through the front and rear edges of the wing, and ribs located across the structure every five to seven centimeters. Form they should resemble a drop to provide the glider with a lift. You can make them out of two curved racks, but it is better to give the child a pile of thin pieces of wood and a jig saw. Stabilizer and keel are made lattice from the same rods five by five millimeters in cross section. The stabilizer is 200 x 70 millimeters, the keel is a trapezoid with bases 70 and 40 millimeters and a height of 100 millimeters. All parts are glued together and clamped with something heavy. After that they are pasted with paper. The main thing is that the paper is stretched. Wings are attached to the fuselage by means of rubber at a distance of about one-third of the length from the front end. The keel is attached to the rear end, followed by the stabilizer. On the nose of the airplane is a teardrop shaped weight, the size and weight of which depend on the weight and location of the elements of the aircraft. You can praise the child: he made a glider with his own hands!

What's next

After happy hours of work and funny launches of the aircraft you can think about the further occupation of the child. If a child is carried away, for example, by decorating an airplane, you can make different models together with him - copies of aircraft. And you can invite him to make a more complex version of the aircraft using a rubber engine. Making airplane models with their own hands is interesting and informative. After all, aviation is a whole world, always attracting boys. If the child was able to make a glider with his own hands, then it can be trusted by everyone. Or almost everything.