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Re: Paper Airplane Designs

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Post by sytelus »

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.

It would be great to have some data on these designs, for example avg time aloft, max distance travelled. May be users should be able to report this and you can do average or median?

Re: Paper Airplane Designs

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Post by sekou »

This is wonderful. Long ago MS Publisher had templates that allowed you to build paper airplanes. I remember discovering this as a kid in elementary school with my friends.

Re: Paper Airplane Designs

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Post by tiglionabbit »

tempestn wrote: post #116
usrusr wrote: post #92

Question: there is a "rule" separating "no cuts" from others, let's call it a purity class. Is "no arbitrary folds" also an established purity class? When I was a kid with too much paper at my disposal, arbitrary folds felt like chatting. Arbitrary folds would be any fold not defined by either a side or existing fold aligning with another side or existing fold or by a corner aligning with another corner. Many interme…

Going to be tricky since the leading edge of the wing where it meets the nose is often 'arbitrary' in this sense.

Paper airplanes are generally symmetrical, which means you can begin by folding the paper in half and using that fold to determine where the nose is. Unless you mean something else?

Re: Paper Airplane Designs

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Post by tiglionabbit »

usrusr wrote: post #92

Question: there is a "rule" separating "no cuts" from others, let's call it a purity class. Is "no arbitrary folds" also an established purity class? When I was a kid with too much paper at my disposal, arbitrary folds felt like chatting. Arbitrary folds would be any fold not defined by either a side or existing fold aligning with another side or existing fold or by a corner aligning with another corner. Many interme…

I'm with you on this one.

Virtually all of the instructions on the site begin with folding the paper in half in some way. However, this one breaks that rule:

https://www.foldnfly.com/15.html#Spin-Plane "1. Fold the paper in half about two inches before the edge."

But it doesn't have to! It could just as well have started with a center fold and then folding the corners to the center to measure, then folding that over to measure again. The measurement folds don't have to even be full folds -- you could just fold only at the very edges to lock in the measurement. Also, this plane ultimately has a center fold in it, so it could easily have begun with one.

Re: Paper Airplane Designs

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Post by tempestn »

tiglionabbit wrote: post #134
tempestn wrote: post #116

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Going to be tricky since the leading edge of the wing where it meets the nose is often 'arbitrary' in this sense.

Paper airplanes are generally symmetrical, which means you can begin by folding the paper in half and using that fold to determine where the nose is. Unless you mean something else?

I'm talking about the leading edge of the wings, where they meet the fuselage. How far up that is from the tip of the nose is often not based on any existing edge or fold.

Re: Paper Airplane Designs

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Post by Endy »

profalseidol wrote: post #129
Endy wrote: post #125

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

Couldn't do that when I was using the school Chromebook.

Re: Paper Airplane Designs

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Post by offsky »

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.

That is very odd and not what I want. It’s just google Adsense. You sure your computer doesn’t have spyware?

Re: Paper Airplane Designs

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Post by offsky »

amatecha wrote: post #103
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.

I just noticed this one still shows up when I choose "no scissors" https://www.foldnfly.com/13.html#The-UFO :)

Thanks. I’ll fix it.

Re: Paper Airplane Designs

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Post by pantalaimon »

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.

For the very same reason I wonder whether there might be a difference in taste between a metric recipe and an imperial one.
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