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Here's (above) a motorized version of the plane.  Here the vertical front rudder in the glider has been replaced by two tiny horizontal wings. I don't see the engine but I'll assume it's there because two propellers are visible. Each prop rotated in a different direction for stability.

At first I thought it odd that the propellers were in back of the wings. I mean, isn't it the job of a propeller to throw wind over the wings? I guess it isn't. According to an article I just read, the propeller is only there to pull the plane through the viscous medium of the air.



There's a lot about flying that's counter-intuitive. I always thought that the wing shape causes low pressure on the top and that in turn allows high pressure underneath to push the wing up. Evidently that's not exactly true. What really happens is that a vacuum layer forms over the top of the wing and the plane is pulled up from the top. Interesting, eh?

Someone on the net says that this explains why planes can fly upside down, but that I don't understand.


Boy, I'd like to have a working model of the Wright plane...one like this zombie child (above) has. You can get one for 50 bucks. It has a hand-cranked motor located in back of the wings, just like the real one.

I also discovered this morning that you can by an electric motor for home-made  paper airplanes. It costs 20 bucks...a real bargain if it works.

 You can even put two motors on a paper airplane! Hmmm...maybe if the plane's made of card stock.


I also looked up paper plane designs and discovered that a lot's been done with that. Here's a soda straw airplane that someone claims can fly.



Here's (above) a fly-powered airplane, with flies super-glued to the wing. It didn't work out so good so the inventor tried gluing bees to the wing, only they refused to fly.