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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…
Was it this [1] program? [1] https://archive.org/details/thegpa
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As a kid I had a great book with lots of science experiments in it called "Science Is" (Author: Susan V. Bosak) It had an entire section on airplanes but there was one that absolutely destroyed my intuition about flight and to this day confuses adults whenever I get the chance to make it (something like a team building event where we need to make paper airplanes). It's literally two hoops of paper and a stick. Here's…
As a kid I had a great book with lots of science experiments in it called "Science Is" (Author: Susan V. Bosak) It had an entire section on airplanes but there was one that absolutely destroyed my intuition about flight and to this day confuses adults whenever I get the chance to make it (something like a team building event where we need to make paper airplanes). It's literally two hoops of paper and a stick. Here's…
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This was the YouTube video where I think the person makes the same design as the one I remember: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=t2sozrof3HY
It was probably the combination of available letter-sized sheets of paper (old homework) and some free time (recess and/ study hall).
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…
I've found "Paperang paper airplane" to be the best. It is pretty hard to fold properly because the margin of error is thin, but it is really a fun one
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…
As a kid I had a great book with lots of science experiments in it called "Science Is" (Author: Susan V. Bosak) It had an entire section on airplanes but there was one that absolutely destroyed my intuition about flight and to this day confuses adults whenever I get the chance to make it (something like a team building event where we need to make paper airplanes). It's literally two hoops of paper and a stick. Here's…
As a kid I had a great book with lots of science experiments in it called "Science Is" (Author: Susan V. Bosak) It had an entire section on airplanes but there was one that absolutely destroyed my intuition about flight and to this day confuses adults whenever I get the chance to make it (something like a team building event where we need to make paper airplanes). It's literally two hoops of paper and a stick. Here's…
It's not clear from the webpage, but does it do something different from a paper airplane with just 1 hoop like this? https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/edu/teach/activity/ring-wing-glider...
You throw them fast and underhanded imparting a bit of spin — they'll sail across a gymnasium.
I used to love making the ring wing glider: https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/edu/teach/activity/ring-wing-glider... In addition to being able to glide very far, you could launch it with a meter stick.
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0671555510
They are a bit finicky to make, but fly very nicely. One day a friend and I were messing around and added a dumb amount of weight to the front of one. Think it was a clip his mom used to dry cloths outside. Nearly doubled the weight and put the center of balance way near the front of the plane. We expected a nosedive. Gave it a toss and it 3x'd the flight length easily. It was already fairly decent and you could easily get across a room with little changes. Now it was easily getting across his yard.
