This was a fun assignment that challenged me to think out of the box (be creative) and do some problem solving. I was initially intimidated by the assignment once I realized that I had to climb on top of a table to fly the planes which I couldn't do since our ceilings are only 7-8 feet in height. So I opted to make two planes and compare their flight patterns: one from the first landing in our staircase and one off of our coffee table. I timed the descent of the two planes from the first 11.5 step on the staircase and holding the planes 8 feet off the floor: the larger angular nosed plane fell to the floor in .09 seconds while the smaller plane took 2 seconds to fall. When I released the 2 planes/ from the coffee table the larger plane fell on the floor in 2 seconds and the smaller plane took 3 seconds to hit the floor. It would appear that the different configuration of each plane determined how they well each one flew. But one might argue that their flight also depended on how well they were launched.