Make a Weather Plane

Wouldn't it be exciting to fly through the eye of a storm? What do you think it might be like? If you were actually a passenger in a "hurricane hunter" plane, how do you think you would feel? What would you see through the window? What sounds would you hear? To make the plane below you will need: a sheet of notebook paper, scissors, a stapler and crayons. If it were a real "hurricane hunter" plane, how could it help people prepare for a storm?

Step One

• START with a sheet of paper.
• FOLD it in half the long way.

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Step Two

• FOLD the top left corner down and CREASE it into place.
• TURN THE AIRPLANE OVER and FOLD DOWN the other corner.
• Now, TURN the airplane BACK OVER, and MAKE THE NEXT FOLD shown by the dotted line.
• TURN THE PLANE OVER and do the same for the other wing.

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Step Three

• CREASE both wings down. Then STRAIGHTEN the wings back up.

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Step Four

• Place one STAPLE through the plane on the SINGLE RED LINE in diagram 4.
• CUT the two small slits, shown by the dotted line, in each wing.
• FLATTEN the wings back into place.
• FOLD UP the two square pieces you made with the two small cuts. Once these two parts are standing up, they become a pair of vertical stabilizers.

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Step Five

• Your finished weather plane should look very much like the plane in diagram 5.
• COLOR a "NOAA logo" design (below) on the wings of your new weather plane.
  
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• TAKE your weather plane for a few test flights.
  

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