X-103 Straw Rockets

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X-103 Straw Rockets
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Tools and Materials
8 ½x11 20lb copier paper 8 ½x11 64lb card
stock 8 ½x11 cardboard Foamie sheets
Rubber bands Paperclips Coffee stirrer
sticks Straws (one size must fit into a larger
size) Dunkin Donuts and Starbucks have 2 straw
sizes. Scotch tape Masking tape
Scissors Glue gun Colored pencils 12 ruler
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Glider Wings and Tail Rocket Fins
Make crisp, accurate, straight folds.
Fold
Folding in half ensures that the right and left
wings will be the same.
Fold edge
Cut out wings.
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Alternate wing design.
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Cut out 4 equal rocket fins.
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Cut out tail.
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Glider Wings and Tail Rocket Fins
Unfold wings.
Roughly 3.
Roughly 6.
Alternate wing design.
Cut 4 equal fins and bend a small flange so you
can glue the fins to the fusaloge.
Cut and fold tail as shown.
Roughly 2.
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Straw Fuselage
Big straw.
Small straw.
You can find these two straw sizes at Starbucks
or Dunkin Donuts.
Cut the BIG straw roughly in half.
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Straw Fuselage
1) Pinch and tape or hot glue one end of each
straw half. No air should get through. We will be
making a straw rocket and a straw glider.
2) Cut out a 2 diameter circle out of paper of
Foamie.
3) Cut the circle in half.
4) Wrap each half circle into a cone and tape or
hot glue.
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Straw Fuselage
Hot glue the cone to the closed end of the BIG
straw.
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Integrate Parts
Hot glue wings, tail and fins onto the BIG straw
halves.
Insert the small straw inside the big straw
fuselage and blow!
It may help to wrap a small rubber band around
the front of the fuselage to control the center
of gravity!
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Hall of Fame Planes
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Air Show

• Competitions
• Best looking.
• Furthest distance.
• Most accurate.
• Longest flight time.