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Re: Paper Airplane Designs

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Imagine my surprise when I'm reading down the HN list like I do every day and I stumble upon my own website. Thats a pretty cool feeling! Im happy to answer any questions people may have. This was my Angular learning project back when Angular just came out. I think Angular ended up being the wrong choice for this project, but it works and I learned Angular, so its all good.

I wonder, I wonder wether producthunt will love this too...

Re: Paper Airplane Designs

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post #71
post #41

Imagine my surprise when I'm reading down the HN list like I do every day and I stumble upon my own website. Thats a pretty cool feeling! Im happy to answer any questions people may have. This was my Angular learning project back when Angular just came out. I think Angular ended up being the wrong choice for this project, but it works and I learned Angular, so its all good.

I wonder, I wonder wether producthunt will love this too...

let's find out https://www.producthunt.com/posts/fold-n-fly

Re: Paper Airplane Designs

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Since this is going to be a great pass time for geekids, wanted to throw in a few resources for completeness: Windtunnel to test: https://www.instructables.com/id/Paper-aeroplane-wind-tunnel... Project form: https://www.sciencebuddies.org/science-fair-projects/project... Another page with slightly different features: https://www.origamiway.com/paper-airplanes.shtml

> Since this is going to be a great pass time

I thought this was a fantastic eggcorn[1], until I realized that it is the actualy origin of the word 'pastime'. So, it sort of is, but isn't at the same time.

[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eggcorn

Re: Paper Airplane Designs

#74
post #41

Imagine my surprise when I'm reading down the HN list like I do every day and I stumble upon my own website. Thats a pretty cool feeling! Im happy to answer any questions people may have. This was my Angular learning project back when Angular just came out. I think Angular ended up being the wrong choice for this project, but it works and I learned Angular, so its all good.

Very nice, although (and just a suggestion, not a criticism), from a design perspective, a little bit more padding in the cards would go a long way.

Re: Paper Airplane Designs

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post #41

Imagine my surprise when I'm reading down the HN list like I do every day and I stumble upon my own website. Thats a pretty cool feeling! Im happy to answer any questions people may have. This was my Angular learning project back when Angular just came out. I think Angular ended up being the wrong choice for this project, but it works and I learned Angular, so its all good.

Am I correct to assume all the designs are for US Letter paper?

(And not the A4 size common in the UK and elsewhere. http://betweenborders.com/wordsmithing/a4-vs-us-letter/)

I remember the frustration as kid getting a book of designs from the US and having none of them work quite right.

Re: Paper Airplane Designs

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post #41

Imagine my surprise when I'm reading down the HN list like I do every day and I stumble upon my own website. Thats a pretty cool feeling! Im happy to answer any questions people may have. This was my Angular learning project back when Angular just came out. I think Angular ended up being the wrong choice for this project, but it works and I learned Angular, so its all good.

Some of these look so similar to the ones I used to design. We used to call a single "swoop" where it would go down and glide back up a "neener-neener". The peak of our design was the "neener-neener 9", which I recall would do a full 9 neener-neeners on a blustery day.

Re: Paper Airplane Designs

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

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 ei…

I'm interested! Maybe you could document it (drawing, video, whatever)?

I’d also love to see the design!!

Re: Paper Airplane Designs

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post #41

Imagine my surprise when I'm reading down the HN list like I do every day and I stumble upon my own website. Thats a pretty cool feeling! Im happy to answer any questions people may have. This was my Angular learning project back when Angular just came out. I think Angular ended up being the wrong choice for this project, but it works and I learned Angular, so its all good.

I've recently started running a STEM club for girls. One of the lessons is about flight: what makes an airplane fly, and can we design a better airplane than the standard 6-fold-arrow?

I've been searching the internet for a website that ranks paper planes both difficulty AND purpose. You just saved me a lot of time. On behalf of the girls in my club: thank you!

Re: Paper Airplane Designs

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I wonder if anyone has attempted to use machine learning to try and build a better paper airplane. I feel like that would be super interesting.

Not too far from it: "Pteromys: Interactive Design and Optimization of Free-formed Free-flight Model Airplanes"

http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.648...

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