Paper Airplane Designs (2013)

Post by amatecha » Mon, Jul 18, 2022, 7:36 PM UTC

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My interest in science started when a friend and I folded a few paper planes, tested them over a small downhill section outside my house, made notes about what worked, tweaked and experimented with new designs, and so on. It blew my little mind that with structured experimentation you could design things that actually got better with each generation. Where would the improvements stop? With hindsight, I realise that m…

The one in the YouTube video looks very similar to (or exactly like) one of the designs from one of the Klutz books around the turn of the millennium. I might’ve found it in the Explorabook? I’m pretty sure they called it the best paper airplane you’ll ever make, it even had the same wing flaps. It also looks almost exactly like one in the cover of the paper airplane book: Klutz Book of Paper Airplanes Craft Kit http…

Post by outworlder » Mon, Jul 18, 2022, 7:53 PM UTC

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Get a PPL if you really want to fly. It is much more accessible and you can make your dream come true.

Eventually I'd like to obtain a licence, at least the one for smaller planes. But even if I get one, general aviation isn't really a thing here in India so it's kind of a dead-end. I think USA is a better place for these kinds of activities, where the plane scene is much more active.

Post by Dove » Tue, Jul 19, 2022, 12:16 AM UTC

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In fourth grade we had a paper airplane contest, but they had a restriction on the design: a circle about the size of a quarter was on the page, and no fold or crease could go through the circle. The circle was located a few inches above the exact center of the paper. Anyway I made a "dart", and just offset the angle a little to avoid the circle. It was good, and most of the competition was incredibly bad. And a few…

I was at a math camp where one of the activities was that each team had to design a paper plane and get it to a castle on top of a hill by throwing it the fewest times possible (like in golf). Several teams converged on a design of a crumbled ball of paper as that was what offered the best combination of accuracy and distance. Since there was no rule against it, we've allowed it. Some of the teams who played with con…

Post by kqr » Tue, Jul 19, 2022, 8:14 AM UTC

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I was at a math camp where one of the activities was that each team had to design a paper plane and get it to a castle on top of a hill by throwing it the fewest times possible (like in golf). Several teams converged on a design of a crumbled ball of paper as that was what offered the best combination of accuracy and distance. Since there was no rule against it, we've allowed it. Some of the teams who played with con…

I'm aware of an even more efficient "hack" of the rules as different versions of this type of story are a mainstay of certain types of business courses where they want to try and teach a lesson of working together, delegation, cooperation, task specialization, etc. The most efficient way to move a stack of paper to a goal isn't to take each piece and do something to it (crumple/fold) but to just leave it together and…

Post by thatguy0900 » Tue, Jul 19, 2022, 1:14 PM UTC

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Oh, yes, that book was great. The helicopter one is pretty unique, and there was another one that is VERY simple to make, and you end up making a flying-ring, and that plane actually performed beautifully. It flew straight and fast; wasn't much for long slow glides, but it never failed to impress people - especially with it's simplicity of construction.

It featured some "match rockets" too that probably would be a hard-sell to an editor/publisher these days....