CAP Zia Flyer Glider
This airplane was designed to support the Lloyd Sallee - Civil Air Patrol Glider Encampment which is held every year in Hobbs, NM. During the 2 week encampment, cadets attend ground school classes, which include a number of experientially based activities. The lessons learned in the classroom are then applied in their glider training in the air. This model helps the cadets experience first hand the basics of flight dynamics, control interaction, flight maneuvers, and controls coordination.
Airframe Terminology Lesson Plan
Dynamics of Flight Lesson Plan
Instruction for printing and assembling the ZiaFlyer
Printing
1. Click on the thumbnail above to download and save the JPG
file in a convenient place, like your desktop.
2. Open your word processor and insert the file into a new blank document.
(e.g. In Word: Insert..Picture..From File)
3. Stretch the image as large as your printer can manage, making sure
to maintain proportions of the image.
4. Print the pattern on your color printer using white, heavy card stock.
Materials Needed
pattern printed on white heavy index card stock
1 Scissors
Scotch tape
penny
Construction
1. Cut out the main wing, fuselage and horizontal stabilizer.
2. Fold the fuselage.
Optional: Cut out and glue nose stiffener into inside of the fuselage
nose.
3. Tape a penny into the nose of the fuselage.
4. Fold the wing stiffener back under the main wing.
5. Cut two 1 millimeter slots at the wing root leading edge to lock into
the fuselage.
6. Cut main wing and horizontal stabilizer slots in the fuselage.
7. Insert main wing and horizontal stabilizer.
8. Slide main wing forward to engage wing slots.
9. Trim and fly your airplane.
Note to Teachers: This airplane is a high-wing design with no dihedral and tends to go unstable if the trim is not set exactly. One possible class exercise might include how dihedral works to make aircraft stable and then problem solve how the airplane design could be modified to improve stability.
Designed by William H. Jackson, Maj, CAP - Capital Composite Squadron, Santa Fe, New Mexico, SWR-NM-018