This is a fun little plane for all ages I think but it is a little harder to build than most EZ stuff if you do the skins. If you dont want the skins, the first 2 pages (A and B) are all the foam board part. So by just tiling 2 8.5x11 pages together you have everything to build it and you could...
I designed a F-14 chuck glider
Materials:
2 brads
Half sheet of foam board
1 hot glue stick
3 pennies
place 2 pennies in the front right in front of the wing
plane 1 penny in the back where it will fly straight
place the two brads where it shows the x on the plans
One thing I love so much about this hobby, is that I can share it with my boys. The oldest is 3 and loves to look at the planes I have. He especially loves when I retire a foam board plane and he gets the carcass to toss around the yard as a glider. With that, I decided to build a couple chuck...
I had someone request the plans for a 25% Mini Sparrow for quick building.
We build around 125 at a Maker Faire as make and take items - the kids loved them and they make great little chuck gliders.
I did a STEM class where they experimented with the effect of changing the CG, removing paper...
Hi!
I'm new here. I watched some FT videos, and I said I want to build my own one. Because I haven't a lot of money (I"m under 18) I decided to build chuck glider. Which of FT planes (or planes published in articles) will be the best option?