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Re: Paper Airplane Designs

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In the 90's I went to a small middle school, the 8th grade class was 21 people. Once, the school had a contest in the indoor gym, we each designed paper planes and the one who flew it the farthest won a prize. We argued with teachers over an allowance for a little bit of tape, which some of us used just as nose weight. However, each kid was the one to "fly" his own plane, a big oversight. Almost the last kid, when it…

I did the same in elementary school, I made my own plane design after many iterations of a/b testing. It won pretty much every airplane contest. No tape, pennies, or paperclips needed, they actually reduced the overall distance if the center of mass was too close to the tip.

When thrown you had to keep the wings folded down unlike a traditional plane. Basically I made a dart. You didn't have to be good at throwing either, guaranteed to work in any weather condition since it didn't rely much on aerodynamics.

Unlike regular origami planes, the harder you threw it the further it went. So I always had the biggest guy in class throw it.

Suprisingly I never came across the design in any origimai books/sites I've found either, even years later. Its probably out there somewhere but I still remember how to make it.

Re: Paper Airplane Designs

#23
Love this one!

Over the last two years I made a lot of paper aeroplanes for my nephew, after that I started to build my own glider planes and now we're into RC planes.

If you want to get a bit more of a hobby I highly recommend Flitetest community, they made awesome things, and is a great resource to get kids into the hobby.

https://www.flitetest.com/

RC-Plane from cardboard pizza box https://www.flitetest.com/articles/flying-wing-made-from-a-c...

Flite test Steam https://www.ftstem.com/

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Love this one! Over the last two years I made a lot of paper aeroplanes for my nephew, after that I started to build my own glider planes and now we're into RC planes. If you want to get a bit more of a hobby I highly recommend Flitetest community, they made awesome things, and is a great resource to get kids into the hobby. https://www.flitetest.com/ RC-Plane from cardboard pizza box https://www.flitetest.com/articl…

I've had a similar progression. Have you gotten into discus launch gliders?

Re: Paper Airplane Designs

#25

Fantastic! I love the design of this site: the way it greets you immediately with big thumbnails of actual paper airplanes. I was flying some "Basic Dart" and "Square" planes (those are the only two designs I know by heart) with my kids the other day and I was thinking, "I bet there are a bunch of great designs online somewhere..." And here we are!

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Fantastic! I love the design of this site: the way it greets you immediately with big thumbnails of actual paper airplanes. I was flying some "Basic Dart" and "Square" planes (those are the only two designs I know by heart) with my kids the other day and I was thinking, "I bet there are a bunch of great designs online somewhere..." And here we are!

Agree! That is what I've liked more about the post. The design is just great. Very good looking, simple, and clean. The planes are nice too though :)

Re: Paper Airplane Designs

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

If you give me a realistic physics environment to train an agent in I'll do it for you.

Hmmmmmm. I wonder if X-Plane would be capable of simulating that... they basically do an FEA model of flight, although I’m not sure if it would scale down appropriately.

Flight physics don't scale down (or up) well. It's the predominant reason small airplane and quad models have enormously unscalable performance characteristics and abilities.

Making it bigger doesn't "just work"... same for the inverse.

Re: Paper Airplane Designs

#29

What's the easiest one that does reliable loops?

I remember flying successful loops with a Barnaby back in my childhood; sadly, it looks like his book (How To Make and Fly Paper Airplanes, Ralph S. Barnaby) may be out of print.

I'm sure there are many newer books and designs these days, but that was the one I knew and loved.

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