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Re: Paper Airplane Designs

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Post by emsy »

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.

FWIW, you can simply cut 2 cms from the tall end and have the same ratio as US paper.

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Post by pbhjpbhj »

taftster wrote: post #149
Endy wrote: post #147

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Thank you! Now I can go back to suggesting this to all the physics teachers in the schools where I teach! Oh and regarding malware, we'd gotten the Chromebooks, brand new, from Dell, a week before.

I mean, I know this is probably not in your control and all (and I know I'm off-topic). But wouldn't an adblocker be appropriate for your school environment? I most definitely wouldn't want my kids to see any ads, but obviously and especially those with "significant skin exposure". I applaud you for not recommending this site in the first take. But it seems like you should have more support, adblockers being the firs…

Ad-blockers from the point of view of UK copyright would seem to be tortuous copyright infringement (unauthorised modification and/or unauthorised creation ofa derivative). I can't see schools here using them because of the legal risk.

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Post by pbhjpbhj »

offsky wrote: post #141
offsky wrote: post #138

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

So, I just discovered that Adsense has an option to block ads that have "Significant Skin Exposure" so I turned this on a few mins ago.

How do you feel about suggestions that people should ad-block your site?

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Post by pbhjpbhj »

iaw wrote: post #15
simonsarris wrote: post #3

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…

Similar story from a university aero course that ended with a paper airplane competition. There were some remarkable paper airplanes, making amazing flights, all sorts of research and time went into developing the ideal model. One guy comes up representing his team and he gets out a piece of rolling paper and a lighter. Tears the tiniest portion off the rolling paper, sets it alight, and then follows it with his fing…

You can use a light paper and a board that you walk with to provide lift; I'd have thought that would create a "thrower stays behind line" rule.

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Post by corpMaverick »

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.

How did you get into the hobby ? How did you collected the designs ? You should add a little bit of history to make it more personal and engaging.

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Post by kwhitefoot »

pantalaimon wrote: post #140
alex_stoddard wrote: post #75

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

> imperial standard

The US does not use Imperial. It uses US Customary.

This differs from Imperial in many ways especially for volume measure. And of course Imperial is not a standard.

Re: Paper Airplane Designs

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Post by thatcat »

amphibian87 wrote: post #111
dirktheman wrote: post #78

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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!

That's awesome. I have fond memories of similar experiments in physics, where the winning group used the "paper clip" trick to put some weight on the nose. The world record paper airplane flight is just a straight up rectangle haha.

>just a rectangle

Haha, that makes sense though since it optimizes for maximum surface area resisting descent.

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