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| About the Author | |
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| Foreword | |
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| Preface | |
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| Acknowledgments | |
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| Tumblewing | |
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| Assembly | |
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| Launching the Tumblewing | |
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| Keeping Your Tumblewing in the Air | |
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| Generating an Updraft with the Paddle | |
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| Steer Your Tumblewing | |
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| Make Your Tumblewing Fly Higher | |
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| Fly Your Tumblewing Indoors | |
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| Theory | |
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| Experiment 1: Wing Loading of Tumblewings | |
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| Experiment 2: Rotation Rate of a Tumblewing | |
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| Paper Airplane Surfer | |
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| Assembly | |
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| Trim the Paper Airplane Surfer | |
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| Trimming the Paper Airplane Surfer about the Pitch Axis | |
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| Trimming the Paper Airplane Surfer about the Roll Axis | |
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| Keep Your Paper Airplane Surfer in the Air | |
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| Steer Your Paper Airplane Surfer | |
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| Make Your Paper Airplane Surfer Climb | |
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| Make a Paddle Launcher | |
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| Assembly | |
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| Launch the Airplane from the Paddle Launcher | |
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| Theory | |
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| Experiment 1: Paper Grain Direction | |
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| Experiment 2: Wing Loading of Different Designs | |
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| X-Surfer | |
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| Assembly | |
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| Trim Your X-Surfer | |
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| Sustain Your X-Surfer in Flight | |
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| Steer Your X-Surfer | |
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| Make Your X-Surfer Climb | |
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| Theory | |
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| Jumbo | |
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| Assembly | |
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| Trim the Jumbo | |
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| Sustain the Jumbo in Flight | |
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| Steer the Jumbo | |
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| Theory | |
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| Butterfly Glider | |
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| Assembly | |
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| Trimming Your Butterfly Glider | |
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| Flying Your Butterfly Glider | |
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| Theory | |
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| Baby Bug | |
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| Assembly | |
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| Trimming the Baby Bug | |
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| Sustaining the Baby Bug | |
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| Theory | |
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| Hot Wire Cutter for Thin Slicing Polystyrene Foam Blocks | |
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| Assembly | |
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| More Fun with Walkalong Gliders | |
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| Controlling Your Glider, from Takeoff to Landing | |
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| Flying Straight and Level (Harder than You Think) | |
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| Approaching the Landing Site (Turns Relative to Ground Markers) | |
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| Landing Your Walkalong Glider | |
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| Walkalong Glider Competitions | |
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| Newcomer-Oriented Walkalong Glider Competitions | |
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| Types of Competitions | |
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| Advanced Walkalong Glider Competitions | |
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| Ideas for Presenting Walkalong Gliding | |
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| Making Supplies for Building Tumblewings | |
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| Getting People Interested | |
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| Walkalong Glider Flying Lessons | |
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| Demonstrating Walkalong Glider Construction | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Glossary | |
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| Index | |