“Real-world connections make your classroom come alive.”
Cargo Plane Supplies
Need to Provide for the Classroom
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Kelvin Variable Power Supply - Code: 841051 Price: $125
Kelvin Power Pole 2010 - Code: 851508 Price: $199.95
Across floor wire (e.g., 20 feet of speaker wire)
Several Tethers
Mini-alligator clips (to make or repair tethers) insulated, Kelvin 99013 (black)
or 99012 (red) $0.19
Male audio connector on right angle plug, size M – Kelvin part number
870118
Electrician’s tape
Small flat-head screwdriver
Allen wrench for power pole
Several paper clips
Shop-Vac
Large garbage cans
LCD projector
Gaffer’s tape (or packing tape)
Masking tape
Dust masks
Plastic Table Covering
One room where people can listen to presentation, take notes, eat lunch,
build their plane, and shape and sand their wing. It will get messy with pink
foam dust.
23-foot diameter open circle for flying airplanes in same or adjacent room
General Use Tools
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Two soldering irons
Solder
One or Two drill motors
Two 1/8–inch drill bits
Piece of scrap wood to drill into
Hand shears
Hand brake (nice to have) or linesman pliers
Center punch
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Prices and retailers are only
suggestions. Note that prices are
subject to change.
Per Group of Four Participants
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Large needle-nose pliers
Wire stripper
Stanley Surform Pocket Plane
Small Phillips head screw driver
Scissors
Graph paper
Extra sheet of 150 sandpaper
One sheet of 400 grit sandpaper
Low temp hot glue gun and hot glue
Yard or meter stick
Four twelve-inch rulers
Snap blade knife (with the wider blade)
”The Kit” (One per Participant)
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AIAA Cargo Airplane Booklet
Evaluation Form
2 Basic Airfoil Shapes Handout (blank on one side and filled out on the other)
Orthographic Graph Paper with Border and Title Strip
Piece of graph paper
Pencil
Foam tray at least 9 inches long
Fuselage—3/16” x 3/8” x 24” pine, or better yet basswood from National
Balsa for $0.44
1” phillips flat head 6/32 machine screw and nut
Kelvin Motor Mount 7/8” ID - Code: 390572 Price: $5.95 per 10
Kelvin Motor Code: 850647 Price: $0.85
Kelvin Inexpensive Propellers - Code: 990175 Price: $5.95 per 8
18 inches of stranded lightweight wire. 2-wire, Twisted. Kelvin Code 330438
Price: $14.95 per 50 feet
2 rubber bands
Model Plane Wheel, 1-1/16” dia. Kelvin Code: 390459. $0.75 per pair
Thin wire for landing gear (Kelvin Thin Wire: Code: 330337 Price: $6.45 per
30)
0.329 (21-gauge) aluminum strip 3/4”x8” cut from Crown Bolt 6”x18” sheet
aluminum model #47640, Internet #202183507, store SKU #475365 (Home
Depot)
1/8 inch coffee stirrer or straw
Quarter sheet of 150 sandpaper
Safety glasses
10 half-ounce wheel weights from Harbor Freight
36 inch by 8 inch by 3/4 inch piece of pink foam insulation
Engineering Design Process Supplies
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Assorted paper cups (different sizes and materials)
Scissors (1 pair for every 2 people)
Pencils (unsharpened to use as possible axles)
Plastic drinking straws(any kind)
Assorted materials to use as wheels (wooden spools, washers, spearmint
lifesavers, plastic bottle caps, 3oz Dixie Cups)
Rubber bands(assorted sizes)
Balloons( all the same size)
Tape
Glue
Other found objects for inspiration