Nelly the Copter

My name is Freya and I am now 10. I joined the Young Engineers in 2022 so I was 9 when I started and Nelly was my first project. I looked on the computer and found several helicopters. I picked out a simple one and saw how they are made and then copied one to make Nelly. Patrick won't work out what we have to do. He makes us work it out for ourselves but he does help. He said that Nelly would be far too heavy to fly but I still made the rotor on the tail and the propeller on the top spin using radio controls. Patrick found some pieces of pink hard plastic foam and we decided to cut the body from this. It is very easy…

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