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Re: Paper Airplane Designs

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Post by offsky » Thu, Oct 18, 2018, 6:53 PM UTC

icsllaf wrote: post #54

offsky wrote: post #41

Imagine my surprise when I'm reading down the HN list like I do every day and I stumble upon my own website. Thats a pretty cool feeling! Im happy to answer any questions people may have. This was my Angular learning project back when Angular just came out. I think Angular ended up being the wrong choice for this project, but it works and I learned Angular, so its all good.

Why do you think Angular was the wrong choice? This question is coming from a person with little knowledge on most front-end frameworks.

The main problem I ran into with Angular was SEO. With a single page app, I had a hard time getting google to index the individual airplane pages. This was 5 years ago, before good solutions existed. I cobbled together a solution, but its not perfect. And Google is better about this now anyway. It would have been better to use vanilla JS or jquery to do the simple home-page filtering. But I wanted to learn Angular, so thats what I did.

Re: Paper Airplane Designs

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Post by acjohnson55 » Thu, Oct 18, 2018, 6:56 PM UTC

iaw wrote: post #46

tango24 wrote: post #37

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> follows it with his finger through the air as it took forever to land on the ground. Sounds interesting, but I'm confused. So is he walking in front of it, and the flame is pulled toward his finger? Did it travel the farthest that way?

No, apologies. He burnt the paper and then picked one of the ashes as his "plane" His finger never touched the plane after it took "flight" just pointed to it from the side so that everyone could follow the "flight path." Some classmates were upset, I was just impressed.

Ah, I'm guessing time aloft was the metric?

Re: Paper Airplane Designs

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Post by acjohnson55 » Thu, Oct 18, 2018, 7:01 PM UTC

I won my last company's paper airplane contest by making a dart with double thickness. I was disqualified, however, which seemed hella lame. My throwing strategy was to aim about 30 degrees upward and throw in a smooth motion, which seemed like the way to prevent it from going haywire.

Re: Paper Airplane Designs

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Post by a13n » Thu, Oct 18, 2018, 7:15 PM UTC

offsky wrote: post #61

icsllaf wrote: post #54

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Why do you think Angular was the wrong choice? This question is coming from a person with little knowledge on most front-end frameworks.

The main problem I ran into with Angular was SEO. With a single page app, I had a hard time getting google to index the individual airplane pages. This was 5 years ago, before good solutions existed. I cobbled together a solution, but its not perfect. And Google is better about this now anyway. It would have been better to use vanilla JS or jquery to do the simple home-page filtering. But I wanted to learn Angular, s…

Ah yeah you pretty much have to set up server-side rendering to combat SEO difficulties with single page apps. Google says they'll execute your JS to index client-side rendered sites too, but they really don't do it nearly as often/well in my experience.

Re: Paper Airplane Designs

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Post by woah » Thu, Oct 18, 2018, 7:16 PM UTC

skykooler wrote: post #59

Hi! There's a paper airplane I've made which I learned out of a book a while back - the book called it either a "condor" or "albatross", I forget which, but searching for either of those names turns up different designs. It's an excellent glider, and one of the few designs I know that start with the paper in landscape orientation. If you're interested, here's how to fold it: - With the paper in landscape orientation,…

That book was "the gliding flight"

Re: Paper Airplane Designs

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Post by CaseFlatline » Thu, Oct 18, 2018, 7:18 PM UTC

A feel-good movie to watch with the kids : Paper Planes - https://www.imdb.com/title/tt3328716/

Re: Paper Airplane Designs

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Post by dekhn » Thu, Oct 18, 2018, 7:19 PM UTC

I remember reading about some twins who made airplanes that would just sort of fly around on the thermal currents generated by their bodies. Never could figure out how that works but I have seen ones where you can fan the plane with a big cardboard.