Paper Airplane Designs (2013)
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Paper Airplane Designs (2013)
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Re: Paper Airplane Designs (2013)
#2My favorite paper plane is the one that is explained starting at 03:00 here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3BNg4fDJC8A
Out of all paper planes I tried, it has the best flying capabilities by far.
Form and function really come together in this one. It looks beautifully simple and elegant. And that's also how it flies. When you throw it from a rooftop, you are in for quite a show. It often flies loooong smooth circles. If you are lucky with the wind, it can stay in the air quite a while.
I do not use A4 paper though. I prefer A5, which is half the size of A4. I usually tear an A4 into two equal halves and use one of them.
I also do not do the crease at 04:18. Without it, the paper plane is even more beautiful, because you can put it on a flat surface and it stands on its own.
Re: Paper Airplane Designs (2013)
#3I 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.
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#4Given the weather at the moment, I remember, as a kid, being astounded when I threw a paper airplane on a hot summers-day that didn't immediately come back down to earth like normal, but soared and soared and soared for minutes before I lost it. It blew my little kid mind.
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#5Nice.
However, I see that it doesn't have the plane which I usually made as a child.
As an aside, I was a wannabe pilot who never went to flight school. I love aircrafts, and I love long haul flights (I never got tired from the multiple 15+ hour IndiaAmerica flights I took).
In India to become a pilot you had to learn math and physics in high-school, and at my highschool, you could either take Math-Physics-Chemistry-Biology, or Math-Physics-Chemistry-ComputerScience.
Computer Science (CS) meant they taught you coding, Boolean algebra (incl. Karnaugh Maps), history of CS and the internet, and we eventually moved onto OOP.
I'm terrible at Biology, so I choose the latter option. I found I liked CS, and now here I am :)
Though I never went to flight school, even today I'm still passionate about it. I follow these youtubers — Mentour Pilot, Captain Joe, Kelsey (74gear), and Dutch Pilot Girl.
And I closely follow the aircraft models and the industry in general. I can tell what model an aircraft is just by looking at it.
I sometimes have those what if moments.
It's like the great American poet Robert Frost's The Road Not Taken, except I took the well travelled road.
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#6Nice. However, I see that it doesn't have the plane which I usually made as a child. As an aside, I was a wannabe pilot who never went to flight school. I love aircrafts, and I love long haul flights (I never got tired from the multiple 15+ hour India America flights I took). In India to become a pilot you had to learn math and physics in high-school, and at my highschool, you could either take Math-Physics-Chemistry…
What I came to say. Reading the first line I figured this is an Indian ;)
Re: Paper Airplane Designs (2013)
#7Nice. However, I see that it doesn't have the plane which I usually made as a child. As an aside, I was a wannabe pilot who never went to flight school. I love aircrafts, and I love long haul flights (I never got tired from the multiple 15+ hour India America flights I took). In India to become a pilot you had to learn math and physics in high-school, and at my highschool, you could either take Math-Physics-Chemistry…
Get a PPL if you really want to fly. It is much more accessible and you can make your dream come true.
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#8Given the weather at the moment, I remember, as a kid, being astounded when I threw a paper airplane on a hot summers-day that didn't immediately come back down to earth like normal, but soared and soared and soared for minutes before I lost it. It blew my little kid mind.
What a great feeling that must have been.
It's funny, it's kind of similar to walkie talkie transmissions in the summer. They can get tunneled through the troposphere and suddenly you are talking to people you never expected to contact.
A couple summers ago I was out in my yard, called out randomly on my little 5W handheld, and the signal went just over 8 miles through flat, forested city neighborhoods into the back end of a guy's directional antenna on his house. We had a good laugh at that. I've run tests in the neighborhood and I'm usually lucky to get out a single mile.
During the same season I also like that I can pick up Indian music from an FM radio station 150+ miles south of me (KSJO), using a small pocket radio. Searching around for those signals is also kind of like fishing.
Anyway. I think it's pretty neat how different seasonal conditions change the dynamics of a hobby interest or a science.
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#9Nice. However, I see that it doesn't have the plane which I usually made as a child. As an aside, I was a wannabe pilot who never went to flight school. I love aircrafts, and I love long haul flights (I never got tired from the multiple 15+ hour India America flights I took). In India to become a pilot you had to learn math and physics in high-school, and at my highschool, you could either take Math-Physics-Chemistry…
Get a PPL if you really want to fly. It is much more accessible and you can make your dream come true.
Eventually I'd like to obtain a licence, at least the one for smaller planes.
But even if I get one, general aviation isn't really a thing here in India so it's kind of a dead-end.
I think USA is a better place for these kinds of activities, where the plane scene is much more active.
Re: Paper Airplane Designs (2013)
#10Nice. However, I see that it doesn't have the plane which I usually made as a child. As an aside, I was a wannabe pilot who never went to flight school. I love aircrafts, and I love long haul flights (I never got tired from the multiple 15+ hour India America flights I took). In India to become a pilot you had to learn math and physics in high-school, and at my highschool, you could either take Math-Physics-Chemistry…
What I came to say. Reading the first line I figured this is an Indian ;)
Yep, the relatively short plane with large wings.
Doesn't go fast, but it hovers in the air for quite a bit.
Does this until it hits the ground: Go down, gather lift and go up, reach stall speed, stall, repeat.
Nice to watch if you have a tiny one that you launch from a great height.