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For example I grew up with this one as the "basic" / default:
https://www.origamiway.com/plane-nakamura-lock.shtml
Notice how it has a high air time and distance. I used to launch them them from my 8th story apartment in the city. On a right day, some would take off and would be carried by the wind to where I lose sight of them.
You can find instructions by searching: "paperang paper airplane".
There is a TED talk about it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VS7zcI_5Mp0
Hi! There's a paper airplane I've made which I learned out of a book a while back - the book called it either a "condor" or "albatross", I forget which, but searching for either of those names turns up different designs. It's an excellent glider, and one of the few designs I know that start with the paper in landscape orientation. If you're interested, here's how to fold it: - With the paper in landscape orientation,…
The Greatest Paper Airplanes[1], a virtual interactive encyclopedia for Windows 3.1
Of course, you can use it in the browser these days[1].
It goes through basics and history of flight, basics of paper folding, and gives you dozens of interactive, animated, step-by-step designs.
Loved it as a kid, and was thrilled to see it preserved online.
[1]https://classicreload.com/win3x-greatest-paper-airplanes.htm...
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.
https://classicreload.com/win3x-greatest-paper-airplanes.htm...
Do you plan on doing something like that with your website?
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https://www.poweruptoys.com/
Wow, awesome. Have you tried it? My nephew would love this.
Pop-up books are works of art, but they rely on a vocabulary of a few dozen mechanisms, each of which operates in relation to an opening fold between two pieces of paper or card. Birmingham is a great, systematic expositor of the analytical prerequisites for the wildly creative stuff you might come across in a bookshop these days (there's a boom in spectacular pop-up books, see http://www.bestpopupbooks.com/)
I should add: pop-up books are still assembled by hand (in the Far East), not by robot; so if they seem inexpensive, there's a bit of a story there which might not flatter the book trade. A microcosm of globalization.
https://www.instructables.com/id/How-to-make-an-aerobatic-pa...