Six degrees of freedom in Paper Airplanes | Science behind Paper Airplanes

What are six degrees of freedom? Why is that so hard for us to understand or to be understood? Let’s get this straight and easy. Assume there is an object floating in the air. If the object moves in the forward or backward motion that is called Longitudinal. However, if it moves right or left like you wipe a glass that is Lateral. And if it moves up or down it is called Vertical. So, These are the first three degrees of freedom and the other three are called Pitch, Yaw and Roll.

These six degrees of freedom make aircrafts easy to move in the air and helping them to reach from places to places globally. The further three degrees of freedom in the six is explained below, scroll down!

PITCH:

Pitch is basically – Keep a Plastic ruler on the table and stick a pen on it horizontally like Jesus cross, hold the pen and rotate it clockwise and anti-clockwise it is called Pitch.

YAW:

Yaw is Keep the Plastic ruler on the table and stick a pen on it vertically like a pole, hold the pen rotate it clockwise and anti-clockwise it is called Yaw.

ROLL:

Roll is keeps the Plastic ruler on the table and stick the pen on the same plane as you keep another paper inside a notebook, hold the pen and rotate it right and left like a volume tuner it is called Roll.

Degrees of Freedom in Paper airplanes:

Accessing absolute degrees of freedom like Lateral and vertical is not possible in Paper airplanes. Longitudinal freedom is accessed by throwing the paper airplane in to the space. Pitch, Yaw and Roll is achievable when there is Wingtail ailerons, Vertical stabilizers and variable flaps.

  • Pitch – Wingtail (or) Leading edge ailerons
  • Yaw – Vertical stabilizers (or) Fuselage adjustments
  • Roll – Variable or Differential flaps

These are the basic controls to access the degrees of freedom in Paper airplanes.

  • For More Paper airplane Techniques – Go to Flight Science You will find far more than any other tricks available on the internet about everything on Paper airplanes!

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