Paper Airplane Designs
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Paper Airplane Designs
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#2I wonder if anyone has attempted to use machine learning to try and build a better paper airplane. I feel like that would be super interesting.
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#3In 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 was Sam's turn to "fly", he stepped up to the line, crumpled up his design very tightly into little ball, and hurled the paper mass as far as he could.
Strangely, I can't remember what happened or who won! But his genius observation of the rules stuck with me.
The plane I designed is not among these designs, but a totally square design that I had learned earlier from an origami book. This is the closest one: https://www.foldnfly.com/17.html#The-Square-Plane
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#4I hope kids are still making paper airplanes and getting off their phones occasionally. Some novel designs here for me. Looking at these, I think I have been making my elevators too large all these years.
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#5What's the easiest one that does reliable loops?
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#6Since this is going to be a great pass time for geekids, wanted to throw in a few resources for completeness:
Windtunnel to test: https://www.instructables.com/id/Paper-aeroplane-wind-tunnel...
Project form: https://www.sciencebuddies.org/science-fair-projects/project...
Another page with slightly different features: https://www.origamiway.com/paper-airplanes.shtml
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#8I wonder if anyone has attempted to use machine learning to try and build a better paper airplane. I feel like that would be super interesting.
If you give me a realistic physics environment to train an agent in I'll do it for you.
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#9When I was a child, I had a book with many of these designs. I tested them all from the top of a nearby building's fire escape. My goal was always a long, slow, stable flight and I got the best results with the Square Plane and the Bird. These planes were able to glide all the way across the parking lot (about 120ft estimated using Google Earth imagery.)
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#10I wonder if anyone has attempted to use machine learning to try and build a better paper airplane. I feel like that would be super interesting.
If you give me a realistic physics environment to train an agent in I'll do it for you.
Hmmmmmm. I wonder if X-Plane would be capable of simulating that... they basically do an FEA model of flight, although I’m not sure if it would scale down appropriately.