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Control Surface Experiment Data Sheet #1 - Key

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Directions: Follow the steps from your class procedure for Control Surface Experiment #1. As you test control surface #1 with your glider, complete this data sheet.

drawing of orbiter
1. On the diagram shade the part of the plane you are testing.


2. Name the control surface you just shaded.

inner elevon


3. Tell what position you moved that control surface to
(up, down, left, right, etc.)

both inner elevons bent up
or
both inner elevons bent down


4. Briefly describe the glider's flight.

the glider's nose pitched up
or
the glider's nose pitched down


5. Draw the glider's flight path. arrows drawing flight path


6. Circle the type of motion that this control surface controls.
pitch circled yaw roll

7. Use this space for any other observations you might have.



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