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For a few days in July of 2015 there was a gathering of walkalong flight enthusiasts and friends. Phil Rossonin (literally wrote the book about walkalong gliders) traveled from Boston; Mike Thompson (engineered thin foam gliders and freewheeling props, invented Jagwings) from Wisconsin; we all traveled to Ithaca to join Erik Herman. Later we went to the Piper Flight museum in Lock Haven. This video shows some of the things we did.
Start: Mike makes walkalong glider history—or is it bike-along?
0:12 Michelle and Ken Kontenaar kindly put us up for the night and Michelle—who is the Director of Education at the Sciencenter in Ithaca, New York—took us flying. My daughter, who is sciencetoymaker.org techie, accountant and helper also came along and is seated in the front-right of the plane. Emily Cotman was running a cool engineering summer camp that we participated in at the Sciencenter. Unfortunately, as per Scienceter policy, we could not take pictures.
0:19 In the afternoon we worked with kids in Barton Hall at Cornell. I got footage of Jagwings for an upcoming video. Rather than take lots of cars and have to deal with lots of parking permits in the Cornell University campus, Erik drove us in on the Physics Bus. Sadly, I did not get any video of that.
0:24 We also tested air rockets that you send up high, where they release auto-gyro helicopters that glide back to earth. A video about that will be coming soon, too.
0:32 The kids launched water rockets without water since we were inside, which makes a loud shock wave at launch.
We made gliders with the kids and showed them how to fly all sorts of designs.
1:34 The next day we were in Lock Haven Pennsylvania, at the Piper Museum where Marshal Hopkins was running a summer camp. We made and flew flight project with kids in the great hanger.
3:29 Sadly, Phil had to leave the next day. Mike stayed on and we collaborated on a video about how Mike makes those cool freewheeling propellers for walkalong gliders—yet another video that will out soon.
We had a wonderful time! Last time we got together was at the St. Louis Science Center goo.gl/YKblVT
Follow us on Facebook goo.gl/3R1SwJ
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For a few days in July of 2015 there was a gathering of walkalong flight enthusiasts and friends. Phil Rossonin (literally wrote the book about walkalong gliders) traveled from Boston; Mike Thompson (engineered thin foam gliders and freewheeling props, invented Jagwings) from Wisconsin; we all traveled to Ithaca to join Erik Herman. Later we went to the Piper Flight museum in Lock Haven. This video shows some of the things we did.
Start: Mike makes walkalong glider history—or is it bike-along?
0:12 Michelle and Ken Kontenaar kindly put us up for the night and Michelle—who is the Director of Education at the Sciencenter in Ithaca, New York—took us flying. My daughter, who is sciencetoymaker.org techie, accountant and helper also came along and is seated in the front-right of the plane. Emily Cotman was running a cool engineering summer camp that we participated in at the Sciencenter. Unfortunately, as per Scienceter policy, we could not take pictures.
0:19 In the afternoon we worked with kids in Barton Hall at Cornell. I got footage of Jagwings for an upcoming video. Rather than take lots of cars and have to deal with lots of parking permits in the Cornell University campus, Erik drove us in on the Physics Bus. Sadly, I did not get any video of that.
0:24 We also tested air rockets that you send up high, where they release auto-gyro helicopters that glide back to earth. A video about that will be coming soon, too.
0:32 The kids launched water rockets without water since we were inside, which makes a loud shock wave at launch.
We made gliders with the kids and showed them how to fly all sorts of designs.
1:34 The next day we were in Lock Haven Pennsylvania, at the Piper Museum where Marshal Hopkins was running a summer camp. We made and flew flight project with kids in the great hanger.
3:29 Sadly, Phil had to leave the next day. Mike stayed on and we collaborated on a video about how Mike makes those cool freewheeling propellers for walkalong gliders—yet another video that will out soon.
We had a wonderful time! Last time we got together was at the St. Louis Science Center goo.gl/YKblVT
