If you'll accept one piece of tape (not totally needed but does help) one of my favorite designs is the tube. Super easy to make, flies decently well, and surprises most people: https://www.instructables.com/The-Incredible-Flying-Paper-Tu...
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#32If you'll accept one piece of tape (not totally needed but does help) one of my favorite designs is the tube. Super easy to make, flies decently well, and surprises most people: https://www.instructables.com/The-Incredible-Flying-Paper-Tu...
Unacceptable!
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#33I'm surprised they don't have the "lock fold" or "Nakamura Lock" design. When I was younger, that was the most consistent design for a good plane. Not always the best, but never the worst. Somebody talented could fold up a dart to beat it on distance, or a glider to stay up longer, but everybody could make a decent "lock fold".
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#34I'm surprised they don't have the "lock fold" or "Nakamura Lock" design. When I was younger, that was the most consistent design for a good plane. Not always the best, but never the worst. Somebody talented could fold up a dart to beat it on distance, or a glider to stay up longer, but everybody could make a decent "lock fold". https://origamimag.com/nakamura-lock-paper-airplane/
This is the exact same design I used in middle school to win a paper airplane competition! It is called "The Moth" on the website I found it on back in the day: https://www.10paperairplanes.com/how-to-make-paper-airplanes.... I still remember how to make it to this day.
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#35I spent a very fun holiday break methodically working through these with my nephew and documenting how far we could get them to fly. Big takeaway is that simpler is better and the classics are classic for a reason!
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#36I think it's really cute how they handled the case if the user unchecks all of either the "Type" or "Difficulty" filters hehe
I wonder if they've tested that one against conventional designs. Depending on how well you compress the ball, it might well be very competitive for distance.
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#37I'm surprised they don't have the "lock fold" or "Nakamura Lock" design. When I was younger, that was the most consistent design for a good plane. Not always the best, but never the worst. Somebody talented could fold up a dart to beat it on distance, or a glider to stay up longer, but everybody could make a decent "lock fold". https://origamimag.com/nakamura-lock-paper-airplane/
This one doesn't cut it? https://www.foldnfly.com/2.html#The-Stable Granted, they fold the wings a really weird/ugly way. Also this variant for some reason: https://www.foldnfly.com/29.html#Lock-Bottom-Plane
That's not even the kind of lock I expected. It's possible to design a plane so once the wings are folded down, the fuselage is locked in a tightly folded position. I don't have a good online reference at the moment...
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#39My childhood interest in paper airplanes was completely fuelled by the excellent https://archive.org/details/PAPERAIR , which you can now find on the Internet Archive by the link! The emulation is imperfect, though.
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#40Many years as a kid were spent reading through this old book my father had: The Great International Paper Airplane Book https://archive.org/details/greatinternation00mandrich
When I was 10 or 11 years old I won a mai-tai cocktail in a paper airplane contest at Club Med. I used the helicopter from this book!