Many 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
Hah! Me too. Fond memories.
Paper Airplane Designs
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#42the lock-bottom plane used to be my bread & butter in elementary school
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#43Love it. My 8 y/o is stoked to use up all of daddy's printer paper on designs :)
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#44Many of those are from the classic Great International Paper Airplane Book published in 1967.
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#45Look up whitewings
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#46Many of those are from the classic Great International Paper Airplane Book published in 1967.
FWIW, the site presents a variation of the origami design of Prof. James M. Sakoda of Brown University "winner of the origami award in the First International Paper Airplane Contest" in 1967 as published in that book.
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#47Look up whitewings
I have an unused set of the original vintage kits. There are quite a number of loop wing and asymmetric ones. These are more advanced than paper airplanes.
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#48When I was pretty young - maybe six - I spent about a month at a hospital in the USSR. I don’t know why I was there (observation?), and it’s not be point - the point is, while there, slightly older patients taught me how to fold beautiful paper airplanes, with unbelievable aerodynamic properties - I mean those things could fly.
Many years later, I was taking an aerodynamics course at Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University taught by Bob Sweginnis (died in plane crash, while practicing aerobatics), who dedicated an entire class to a paper airplane contest. The winning criteria was “plane that stays in the air the longest wins”.
My plane came in second - I designed it to make an easy curve through the bungalow to maximise air time, and Bob Sweginnis did an excellent job launching it. He stopped the timer when my plane hit the wall of the bungalow, with plenty of altitude to spare.
The winner? A sheet of paper, basically, that pendulumed to the green carpet in a swinging motion, like a leaf, about a second slower than it took my Mona Lisa to commit suicide.
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#49When I was pretty young - maybe six - I spent about a month at a hospital in the USSR. I don’t know why I was there (observation?), and it’s not be point - the point is, while there, slightly older patients taught me how to fold beautiful paper airplanes, with unbelievable aerodynamic properties - I mean those things could fly. Many years later, I was taking an aerodynamics course at Embry-Riddle Aeronautical Univers…
That's great! Reminds me of elementary school when I was in "gifted and talented... " program. We did a similar experiment. Each kid had some ornate paper airplane, but my simple design won out.
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#50I had a book around the turn of the century with paper airplane folding instructions. Lazily, I stuck to the simple ones and my favourite was called "Phoenix". Could not find it on this page but searching for the book I found a video where the author demonstrates: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=2V55rc58cDg
The book you're thinking of is called "the gliding flight" and is my favorite paper airplane book.
https://www.amazon.com/Gliding-Flight-Paper-Make-Original-Ai...