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Re: Paper Airplane Designs

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Post by offsky »

alex_stoddard wrote: post #75
offsky wrote: 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.

Yeah. Sorry :(

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Post by abruzzi »

I've made a variant of the "tailed plane" for years--its one of my favorites. What's interesting to note on that one, I don't generally throw it normally like other paper airplanes. Instead, I place the front of the plane facing my hand, with my index finger and ring finger on either side of the nose, and my middle finder inside the crease of the nose. Then you just do an overhand fling, loosening your fingers about 2/3rds of the way through he arc. All the folds at the nose, makes the nose heavy, so it turns around and flies nicely.

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Post by Endy »

offsky wrote: 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.

My only problem with this website is that when I used it with a class of students, there were pornographic advertisements in between the plane types. That was really upsetting. Please reconsider your ads.

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Post by qwerty456127 »

offsky wrote: 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.

Thank you for an amazing website, it's so much fun! I really hope it is going to stay up for many years onward.

Re: Paper Airplane Designs

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Post by qwerty456127 »

alex_stoddard wrote: post #75
offsky wrote: 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.

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

"Not quite right" means even more fun. We used a non-standard paper format, the resulting planes were a little bit different than shown and this made them unique.

Re: Paper Airplane Designs

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Post by profalseidol »

Endy wrote: post #125
offsky wrote: 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.

My only problem with this website is that when I used it with a class of students, there were pornographic advertisements in between the plane types. That was really upsetting. Please reconsider your ads.

Best to use Brave as your browser. Or even Opera. Both has built-in ad blocker.

Re: Paper Airplane Designs

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Post by profalseidol »

chaoticmass wrote: post #27
spelunker wrote: post #14

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Those (apparently) are the input choices of the options on the upper left. The values update when you change the selections. Creative I guess.

It is a bit nicer looking than ?option_a=1&option_b=2&option_c=3 etc

I wish we can design the web better. Maybe a human readable breadcrumb instead of reply?id=18250367&goto=item%3Fid%3D18249755%2318250367
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