{"id":276,"date":"2012-05-17T20:44:14","date_gmt":"2012-05-17T20:44:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/amablog.modelaircraft.org\/amamuseum\/?p=276"},"modified":"2018-02-02T09:10:49","modified_gmt":"2018-02-02T13:10:49","slug":"birth-of-the-fpg-9","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/amablog.modelaircraft.org\/amamuseum\/2012\/05\/17\/birth-of-the-fpg-9\/","title":{"rendered":"Birth of the FPG-9"},"content":{"rendered":"

With all the recent use of the FPG-9<\/a>, museum staff thought it might be fun to recollect on the glider\u2019s development.<\/p>\n

For those of you who don\u2019t know, the Foam Plate Glider 9 inch (FPG-9) is a simple glider made from a foam plate, with a penny in the nose for weight. It was originally designed by Jack Reynolds, a volunteer at the Museum. In 2002, Museum staff, upon returning from an outreach program, complained that very few kids had brought in egg carton lids to build \u201cPriceless Fun<\/a>\u201d gliders.<\/p>\n

Mr. Reynolds, who happened to be listening to the complaints, returned the next day and asked “What do you think about this?” while he launched a prototype of the FPG-9. As the airplane floated across the room, museum staff were immediately intrigued – even more so when Mr. Reynolds talked about how he and his grandchild experimented with various stuff from around the house to build an airplane. The end result was the FPG-9, the design of which he gave to the AMA.<\/p>\n

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\nThe only difference between the prototype and the design in use is the addition of a small front \u201cbumper\u201d to hold and protect the penny.<\/p>\n

The FPG-9 has grown up a bit since those first flights, and now is the star of not only the AMA\u2019s Aerolab program<\/a>, but also The Children\u2019s Museum of Indianapolis\u2019 CSI Flight Adventures<\/a>, and soon will be one of Alcoa Corporation\u2019s worldwide education outreach programs.<\/p>\n

For further information on FPG-9 history and design, there are two articles available from Model Aviation<\/em> as a pdf: \u00a0 MA-May-2003-FPG9<\/a> and MA-June-1997-Priceless-Fun<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Click here for additional FPG-9 plans, instructions, and activities.<\/a><\/h2>\n

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With all the recent use of the FPG-9, museum staff thought it might be fun to recollect on the glider\u2019s development. For those of you who don\u2019t know, the Foam Plate Glider 9 inch (FPG-9) is a simple glider made from a foam plate, with a penny in the nose […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wds_primary_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,54,3,47],"tags":[13,74,75,246,50],"class_list":["post-276","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-education","category-free-flight","category-history-moments","category-museum","tag-model-aviation","tag-education-2","tag-fpg-9","tag-free-flight","tag-museum-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/amablog.modelaircraft.org\/amamuseum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/276","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/amablog.modelaircraft.org\/amamuseum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/amablog.modelaircraft.org\/amamuseum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amablog.modelaircraft.org\/amamuseum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amablog.modelaircraft.org\/amamuseum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=276"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/amablog.modelaircraft.org\/amamuseum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/276\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3885,"href":"https:\/\/amablog.modelaircraft.org\/amamuseum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/276\/revisions\/3885"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/amablog.modelaircraft.org\/amamuseum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=276"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amablog.modelaircraft.org\/amamuseum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=276"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amablog.modelaircraft.org\/amamuseum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=276"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}