Learning to Fly: The Wright Brothers Adventure pdf - ER - NASA

10. Place glue on the ends of the four uprightsupports and push them into the elevator.Also put glue on both ends of the upper bracesand push them first into the center of the topof the elevator along the rib lines, and theninto the front edge of the upper wing, asshown. (If the Styrofoam is thin, glue thebraces to the underside of the upper winginstead.)10.11. (Optional) You can make the figures ofWilbur and Orville Wright by swapping andgluing parts of plastic army soldiers. To obtainthe desired poses, arms and legs can be removedand some from other soldiers gluedin their place. Guns and helmets should betrimmed away using a hobby knife and thefigure arms and legs can be shaped, swapped,or repositioned to fit and glued on. Five-minuteepoxy works best for this. The dark soldiers inthe photograph are the original shapes and thelight soldiers are the final shapes.11.12. The original soldiers on the left weretransformed into the figures of Wilburand Orville Wright on the right.12.Learning to Fly: The Wright Brothers’ Adventure52EG–2002–12–007–GRC