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Flying Bird
Division: C - High School
Event Area: Science Application and Technology
Event Rules: 2009 Flying Bird Rules (.pdf)
Event Scoresheet: 2009 Flying Bird Scoresheet (Coming Soon)
National Event Page: This event is offered in North Carolina Only.
Video:
Event Resources:
2007 State Tournament Flying Bird Results
1. New version of the Freebird free online plans. Check out www.flyabird.com/ff.html to get the kit if you would like. The kit is much easier than the plans.
2. Winning teams will most likely not use the Freebird design. It simply wasn't designed for contest flying. However, the Freebird will serve as a training step that will allow all teams to fly a bird successfully. That will make it much easier to progress to their own designs. (That
could simply be a matter of building it lighter, or trying a whole different design.)
3. Rara Avis by Roy White is an actual contest design that fits the rules (as long as schools use a solid motor stick and tail boom instead of the hollow tubes shown). Both plans are also located here: http://www.ornithopter.org/indoor.shtml

4. For inspiration, here is a web page about some 5th graders who built ornithopters successfully:
http://www.gateschili.org/webpages/esol/news.cfm?subsubpage=8582&subpage=3978
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