Experimenting with Helicopters - Activity

HISTORY of SCIENCE- Wow!  I did not know that.

Igor Sikorsky designed the first successful helicopter in the late 1930s. His inspiration came from drawings of an aircraft with a spinning wing, drawn by Leonardo da Vinci nearly five hundred years before.

Places to Visit to extend knowledge.

Igor I. Sikorsky Historical Archives -Lots of photographs and information about helicopters and the man who invented them.

Leonardo da Vinci Museum
This online gallery displays images and other information related to Leonardo da Vinci. The "West Wing" of the gallery has images of helicopters and other flying machines.



TIME TO EXPERIMENT

What to do if you are stuck with the directions.  Print out the Roto-Copter pattern. Click here to go to the pattern page. Cut along the solid lines only. Fold on the dotted lines.     Fold A toward you. Fold B away from you.

Fold C and D over each other so they overlap.

Fold the bottom up and put a paper clip on it.