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Paper Airplane Designs
- wafflesraccoon 8y agoI 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.
- ratsimihah 8y agoIf you give me a realistic physics environment to train an agent in I'll do it for you.
- tonyarkles 8y agoHmmmmmm. 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.
- Alupis 8y agoFlight physics don't scale down (or up) well. It's the predominant reason small airplane and quad models have enormously unscalable performance characteristics and abilities. Making it bigger doesn't "just work"... same for the inverse.
- TylerE 8y agoI think the physics mostly DO scale down, it's air density and gravity that don't.
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- tonyarkles 8y agoIsn't that mostly due to the square/cube nature of scaling things? E.g. your wing area changes with the square of your scaling factor, but your mass changes with the cube of your scaling factor?
- TylerE 8y agoX-Plane really only SORT of models flight. There is no actual FEA or fluid simulation of any kind. The airfoils are canned data lookup. So you can't make something out of polygons and have it wactually "work". It'll fuselage calculate drag based on frontal area and the coefficient you specify, but that's about it. This approach works well for real planes since 99.999% of them use standard NACA airfoils that are well documented in the public domain.
- tonyarkles 8y agoOh! Thanks! I've flipped it into the "airflow visualization mode" but didn't know that it was based on lookup tables!
- v_lisivka 8y agoI wonder if anyone has attempted to use machine learning to try and build a realistic physics environment. I feel like that would be super interesting.
- swebs 8y agoMany people have attempted, but its still and unsolved problem with fluid physics.
- SmellyGeekBoy 8y agoMaybe we're already living in it? ;)
- speps 8y agoNot too far from it: "Pteromys: Interactive Design and Optimization of Free-formed Free-flight Model Airplanes" http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.648.87&rep=rep1&type=pdf http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.648...
- kderbyma 8y agoI want to see someone use the dandelion seeds method in a paper airplane. Many cuts required haha
- simonsarris 8y agoIn 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 https://www.foldnfly.com/17.html#The-Square-Plane
- jetrink 8y agoI did this too! My exploitation of the loophole was aided by the fact that we were also allowed to use (an unspecified number of) paperclips to "balance" our designs. The result was a very dense square with the aerodynamics of a skipping stone. I also brought a traditional paper airplane which I was allowed to fly when my other design was predictably disqualified for general bad faith.
- iaw 8y agoSimilar story from a university aero course that ended with a paper airplane competition. There were some remarkable paper airplanes, making amazing flights, all sorts of research and time went into developing the ideal model. One guy comes up representing his team and he gets out a piece of rolling paper and a lighter. Tears the tiniest portion off the rolling paper, sets it alight, and then follows it with his finger through the air as it took forever to land on the ground. I believe the incident led to a rule change for later years.
- tango24 8y ago> 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?
- Varcht 8y agoI 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.
- lifeformed 8y agoWhat's the easiest one that does reliable loops?
- jfk13 8y agoI remember flying successful loops with a Barnaby back in my childhood; sadly, it looks like his book (How To Make and Fly Paper Airplanes, Ralph S. Barnaby) may be out of print. I'm sure there are many newer books and designs these days, but that was the one I knew and loved.
- xadoc 8y agoMaybe the Phat Glider or Boomberang I from John Collins https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5pKicjvC6Uo https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5pKicjvC6Uo
- dsfyu404ed 8y agoThe balsa wood one with a rubber band and plastic propeller. ;)
- nil_pointer 8y agoProbably the Spin Plane. I've built similar to this and it loops a bunch.
- verta 8y agoSince 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/ https://www.instructables.com/id/Paper-aeroplane-wind-tunnel... Project form: https://www.sciencebuddies.org/science-fair-projects/project-ideas/Aero_p046/aerodynamics-hydrodynamics/how-far-will-paper-planes-fly https://www.sciencebuddies.org/science-fair-projects/project... Another page with slightly different features: https://www.origamiway.com/paper-airplanes.shtml https://www.origamiway.com/paper-airplanes.shtml
- scoot 8y ago> Since this is going to be a great pass time I thought this was a fantastic eggcorn[1], until I realized that it is the actualy origin of the word 'pastime'. So, it sort of is, but isn't at the same time. [1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eggcorn https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eggcorn
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- verta 8y agoThanks for introducing me to a new linguistic trivia!
- ratsimihah 8y ago1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-2
- spelunker 8y agoThose (apparently) are the input choices of the options on the upper left. The values update when you change the selections. Creative I guess.
- chaoticmass 8y agoIt is a bit nicer looking than ?option_a=1&option_b=2&option_c=3 etc
- profalseidol 8y agoI wish we can design the web better. Maybe a human readable breadcrumb instead of reply?id=18250367&goto=item%3Fid%3D18249755%2318250367
- jetrink 8y agoWhen 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.)
- petepete 8y agoI always aimed for (but rarely achieved) a long, slow, stable flight, never had anywhere high enough to test my better attempts. What I'd have given for an empty stadium to test in https://youtu.be/BV6EP9bBbac https://youtu.be/BV6EP9bBbac
- tomesposito 8y agowhat ever happened to the tube? https://www.instructables.com/id/Tubular-paper-airplane/ https://www.instructables.com/id/Tubular-paper-airplane/
- cicero 8y agoI had success with that design as a kid. It was called "the bishop's hat" in the book I had.
- TimTheTinker 8y agoI grew up reading "The Ultimate Paper Airplane" by Richard Kline: https://www.amazon.com/Ultimate-Paper-Airplane-Step-Instructions/dp/0671555510 https://www.amazon.com/Ultimate-Paper-Airplane-Step-Instruct... I didn't have the right tools or expertise to build most of his planes (most notably rubber cement), but I do wonder how these planes stack up against currently popular paper airplane models. He talks a lot about his invention (and patenting) of the Kline-Fogleman airfoil, which creates a vortex that influences the laminar flow and increases stall resistance.
- pohl 8y agoI have a vivid memory of how excited I was by the 60-minutes episode about this paper airplane, and I grabbed a copy of this book when I saw it in my college bookstore. Making the various models was a lot of fun, although I don't think I ever obtained the specific weight of paper they mention in the book. That's still on my bucket list.
- AnimalMuppet 8y agoI tried for the longest paper airplane flight in history - from the top of the Space Needle in Seattle. Unfortunately, the plane hit the anti-suicide mesh, lost all momentum, and from there went straight down. I took the elevator down, walked to the plane, picked it up, and threw it in the trash can. (Don't litter.)
- davegauer 8y agoFantastic! I love the design of this site: the way it greets you immediately with big thumbnails of actual paper airplanes. I was flying some "Basic Dart" and "Square" planes (those are the only two designs I know by heart) with my kids the other day and I was thinking, "I bet there are a bunch of great designs online somewhere..." And here we are!
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- int0x80 8y agoAgree! That is what I've liked more about the post. The design is just great. Very good looking, simple, and clean. The planes are nice too though :)
- jatsign 8y agoGreat site, going to try and interest my kids, but - no videos of the planes actually flying? I want to know what "acrobatic" actually means.
- dougmwne 8y agoIt would be fun to have a small electronics package that could turn some of these designs into RC flyers.
- ynniv 8y agohttps://www.poweruptoys.com/ https://www.poweruptoys.com/
- nathancahill 8y agoWow, awesome. Have you tried it? My nephew would love this.
- speps 8y agoTried the standalone version and the smartphone version. Both didn't really work out for me, but YMMV.
- tehwebguy 8y agoI tried I believe the v1 (just a dumb motor) and the v2 (with a rudder). Both were neat but the v2 was iPhone controlled and very, very cool. You need a LOT of room and it takes some time to get the hang of the throttle, which is your only real up-and-down control.
- eloycoto 8y agoLove this one! Over the last two years I made a lot of paper aeroplanes for my nephew, after that I started to build my own glider planes and now we're into RC planes. If you want to get a bit more of a hobby I highly recommend Flitetest community, they made awesome things, and is a great resource to get kids into the hobby. https://www.flitetest.com/ https://www.flitetest.com/ RC-Plane from cardboard pizza box https://www.flitetest.com/articles/flying-wing-made-from-a-cardboard-pizza-box https://www.flitetest.com/articles/flying-wing-made-from-a-c... Flite test Steam https://www.ftstem.com/ https://www.ftstem.com/
- matthewmcg 8y agoI've had a similar progression. Have you gotten into discus launch gliders?
- eloycoto 8y agoYep, also, we are starting to think to build a shuttle they are easy to build :-)
- nsomaru 8y agoThere was a windows “app” called The Greatest Paper Airplanes. Anyone remember that?
- opencl 8y agoInternet Archive has the shareware version. https://archive.org/details/PAPERAIR https://archive.org/details/PAPERAIR
- abbot2 8y agoSuprisingly enough, this collection doesn't seem have the design most common & popular in Russia, roughly this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mrsxMqvHXkw https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mrsxMqvHXkw.
- ThomPete 8y agoHah, I can see at least one missing. But definitely going to go through this with my kids.
- peterburkimsher 8y agoI think Yasuaki Ninomiya, the retired Japanese engineer, could add some more expert designs based on his paper plane research. http://articles.latimes.com/1990-03-16/news/vw-465_1_paper-airplane http://articles.latimes.com/1990-03-16/news/vw-465_1_paper-a...
- offsky 8y agoImagine 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.
- madeuptempacct 8y agoWhich one flies furthest? (I can narrow down by category, but not sort).
- offsky 8y agoIts hard to say. I never did a test where I threw them all and compared distances. I should do this! A lot depends on how accurate your folds are, and how well you tune it by small bends to the wings. This can make a big difference. I would say that "The Buzz" or "V-Wing" probably are the best. Also the classic "Basic Dart" thrown hard is difficult to beat.
- radicalbyte 8y agoFrom tests conducted 30 years ago: the double dart can be thrown further than the basic dart. It's the same as a dart but you fold the wings one more time..
- dwd 8y agoThere is a ring design that will beat any dart for distance. Particularly when thrown gently from a height where its glide ability can be exploited. https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/edu/teach/activity/ring-wing-glider/ https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/edu/teach/activity/ring-wing-glider...
- phs318u 8y agoThis! Haha. Way back in my 2nd year at university (1985!), these were all the rage. Myself and a couple of friends made a giant version out of 6 university calendars. It had a diameter of about 40-50cm. We launched it one day (when the lecturer was facing the board) from the back of a math lecture. The slope of the lecture hall was a gentle 20 degrees, slowly tapering off towards the front. Initially it cleared people's heads with a few cm to spare, then about halfway it was clearing the backs of chairs - fortunately there were quite a few rows from the middle to the front with no one in them - until it finally found the back of some poor guy's head sitting in the 1st or 2nd row. The ring clunked him square and he ended up wearing it. We all exploded in laughter. It wasn't aimed at him mind - he was just in the wrong spot at the wrong time. I still smile when I think of that (does that make me a bad person?). EDIT: got the year wrong (memory is fading...)
- Rainymood 8y agoI actually "invented" another paper airplane design called the Nakamura Hammer (because it combines the designs of the nakamura lock and the hammer). I made it to the frontpage of Reddit, so that were my 15 minutes of fame. Here's the tutorial https://imgur.com/gallery/b2Q8X https://imgur.com/gallery/b2Q8X It flies really really well inside.
- keerthiko 8y agoIn high school we used to receive printed notices aka 'circulars' from administration to give our parents (do they still do this?) -- our classroom window overlooked a cabin used for temporary classes with a corrugated asbestos roof. After promptly turning my circular into a plane and flying it out the window, exclaiming "hey i got to the 5th row on the cabin roof!" Thus began the hottest aerodynamics contest in my academic life, we experimented with so many designs, tried all kinds of crazy modifications. The interesting thing was, our classroom window was an entire story higher than the cabin roof -- the usual "paper plane contest hack" of rolling a paper ball and chucking it as hard as you can was not very good compared to a functional aerodynamic design with some lift. The "contest" ended when a week later someone reported our antics and the school was aghast to find 40-odd paper planes roosting on the portacabin roof and our entire class was given some stern warnings but luckily noone sold me out as the instigator.
- skykooler 8y agoHi! 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, fold the top corners to meet in the middle. - Fold the top corner [just created] down to the point where those two corners meet. - Fold the two new obtuse corners on the top to meet in the middle. Tape into place. - Fold in half left-to-right, so that the taped corners are on the outside of the fold. - Fold the edges back down to the centerline. - Unfold, and smooth out to give it the profile of an upside-down flattened W. The flatter, the better it will glide, but if it's too flat it will spin. Launch by holding the back, as it has no vertical surface to grip on the bottom.
- woah 8y agoThat book was "the gliding flight"
- tobr 8y agoThis is quite difficult to follow without illustrations... do you know of any folding diagrams for it?
- SmellyGeekBoy 8y agoHa! I remember these being my go-to as a kid. Classmates always ended up taking them home so I must have been doing something right.
- acjohnson55 8y agoI 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.
- CaseFlatline 8y agoA feel-good movie to watch with the kids : Paper Planes - https://www.imdb.com/title/tt3328716/ https://www.imdb.com/title/tt3328716/
- dekhn 8y agoI 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.
- Udo_Schmitz 8y agoI got the German version of this from the library when I was a kid: https://www.worldcat.org/title/great-international-paper-airplane-book/oclc/41144308/editions?referer=di&editionsView=true https://www.worldcat.org/title/great-international-paper-air... It has designs from this competition: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U8gWE8wHhkE https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U8gWE8wHhkE There is also a second book: http://www.worldcat.org/search?q=The+Paper+airplane+book+the+official+book+of+the+Second+Great+International+Paper+Airplane+Contest&qt=results_page http://www.worldcat.org/search?q=The+Paper+airplane+book+the...
- jansan 8y agoAs an owner of a considerable collection of books on paper planes I approve this website.
- rdtsc 8y agoVery interesting, I wonder how regional these are. For example I grew up with this one as the "basic" / default: https://www.origamiway.com/plane-nakamura-lock.shtml https://www.origamiway.com/plane-nakamura-lock.shtml Notice how it has a high air time and distance. I used to launch them them from my 8th story apartment in the city. On a right day, some would take off and would be carried by the wind to where I lose sight of them.
- hivacruz 8y agoI always made that one too. Flies great!
- hexane360 8y agoThis is the design I always made as well (except I usually brought the top wings all the way down to the nose)
- sundarurfriend 8y agoHere in India, I grew up with the Basic Dart (from the OP site) as the default paperplane for kids to do. But the one you linked to was also pretty common, usually made by the "cool" uncles entertaining kids at parties.
- molszanski 8y agoThe best one I've tried is called: paperang. You can find instructions by searching: "paperang paper airplane". There is a TED talk about it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VS7zcI_5Mp0 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VS7zcI_5Mp0
- romwell 8y agoI would like to promote what I think is the ultimate source of this kind: The Greatest Paper Airplanes[1], a virtual interactive encyclopedia for Windows 3.1 Of course, you can use it in the browser these days[1]. It goes through basics and history of flight, basics of paper folding, and gives you dozens of interactive, animated, step-by-step designs. Loved it as a kid, and was thrilled to see it preserved online. [1]https://classicreload.com/win3x-greatest-paper-airplanes.html https://classicreload.com/win3x-greatest-paper-airplanes.htm...
- buxtehude 8y agothanks for sharing this - the animated step-by-step is very nice and especially useful if you're following any kind of complicated design
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- theoh 8y agoThis is slightly tangential to paper airplane folding, but I strongly recommend Duncan Birmingham's YouTube channel ("The Pop-up Channel"): https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCx2M2bGHtXBszG6tuR_NIbQ https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCx2M2bGHtXBszG6tuR_NIbQ Pop-up books are works of art, but they rely on a vocabulary of a few dozen mechanisms, each of which operates in relation to an opening fold between two pieces of paper or card. Birmingham is a great, systematic expositor of the analytical prerequisites for the wildly creative stuff you might come across in a bookshop these days (there's a boom in spectacular pop-up books, see http://www.bestpopupbooks.com/ http://www.bestpopupbooks.com/) I should add: pop-up books are still assembled by hand (in the Far East), not by robot; so if they seem inexpensive, there's a bit of a story there which might not flatter the book trade. A microcosm of globalization.
- eitally 8y agoThis is one I grew up with (as the dart & square plane alternative). If you fold the winglets as the instructions, you end up with an aerobatic plane. If you instead just gently bend the plane in half along the center line (so it looks somewhat arc-shaped), you get a pretty reliable glider. https://www.instructables.com/id/How-to-make-an-aerobatic-paper-airplane/ https://www.instructables.com/id/How-to-make-an-aerobatic-pa...
- ahartmetz 8y agoAs a kid, I only knew the basic design and the square. I almost always used the square, which I learned with two differences from the description on the website: I folded up the outer ~0.5-1cm of the wings as "winglets" (which seemed to help stability) and folded in a triangle of varying size in the back of the fuselage for trim instead of cutting ailerons into the wings. On a windy day in the vortices behind trees at my elementary school bus stop, I had such a square glide for what felt like at least half a minute (unreliable narrator obviously) after launching to maybe 3-4 meters. That lucky random walk wouldn't have worked without the low sink rate of a good square.
- usrusr 8y agoQuestion: there is a "rule" separating "no cuts" from others, let's call it a purity class. Is "no arbitrary folds" also an established purity class? When I was a kid with too much paper at my disposal, arbitrary folds felt like chatting. Arbitrary folds would be any fold not defined by either a side or existing fold aligning with another side or existing fold or by a corner aligning with another corner. Many intermediate folds would be done just as guidelines for layer folds, and four the structural effect they would have after getting undone. A bit like the "only lines and circles, no measurements" rule in geometry.
- tempestn 8y agoGoing to be tricky since the leading edge of the wing where it meets the nose is often 'arbitrary' in this sense.
- tiglionabbit 8y agoPaper airplanes are generally symmetrical, which means you can begin by folding the paper in half and using that fold to determine where the nose is. Unless you mean something else?
- tempestn 8y agoI'm talking about the leading edge of the wings, where they meet the fuselage. How far up that is from the tip of the nose is often not based on any existing edge or fold.
- usrusr 8y agoThe fold that separates the "fuselage" from the wing? Not the leading edge (except in one point), but you are right, that is the one where many otherwise non-arbitrary planes make an exception. My favorite designs, front heavy with a decoratively complex leading edge would usually have plenty of potential guidepoints for the fuselage fold though. Good times, bringing up those memories makes me wonder when exactly I stopped.
- endgame 8y agoI found this design many many years ago, and it's always been my favourite for aesthetics: http://www.members.tripod.com/~Yesitsme2/paperdc3.html http://www.members.tripod.com/~Yesitsme2/paperdc3.html
- dmitripopov 8y agoWhen I was a kid a paper plane was just a fun DIY toy. Now I am almost 40 and I find paper planes have a lot of existential meaning. And they are a fun DIY toy.
- User23 8y agoWhen I was a child I had a book that listed quite a few of these. It was so popular with my classmates in kindergarten that the school ended up banning paper airplanes except on "Paper Airplane Fridays."
- anonytrary 8y agoI wonder how many engineers society lost because they banned that.
- ohsik 8y agoI see this website everywhere I go lol
- j2kun 8y agoOne trick I always used but never understood why it worked: When you add a crease to the paper airplane, (say, folding a square corner in on itself at the nose or the tail), it weighs down that part of the plane. So if your plane is pointing up too much, you add a crease in the nose and it flies more level. But why should adding a crease increase the weight of one section of a plane? You're not adding any more paper.
- mhh__ 8y agoWeight distribution, one assumes?
- dmerrick 8y agoYou are moving the center of mass of the paper. Imagine balancing a pipe cleaner on your finger, should be pretty easy, right? Now add a bend and see that you have to reposition the pipe cleaner on your finger
- j2kun 8y agoI'm moving the weight more toward the center of the plane, but the plane "appears" heavier in the front. This is the opposite effect, no?
- kderbyma 8y agoThe weight isn't the key, it's the torque that is formed by redistribution that causes it to level differently
- tempestn 8y agoFrom one of the example videos on the site, I got suggested this fun video where the maker of the world record distance paper airplane a few years ago shows off and explains a bunch of different designs: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2n4xq0DnbHI https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2n4xq0DnbHI The record flight is shown at the beginning, with more info on the plane at 13:55, but the whole thing is a fun watch.
- svdr 8y agoWorld record plane: https://www.wired.com/story/learn-how-to-fold-a-world-record-setting-paper-airplane/ https://www.wired.com/story/learn-how-to-fold-a-world-record... Throw planes around the world: https://paperplanes.world https://paperplanes.world
- abruzzi 8y agoI've made a variant of the "tailed plane" for years--its one of my favorites. What's interesting to note on that one, I don't generally throw it normally like other paper airplanes. Instead, I place the front of the plane facing my hand, with my index finger and ring finger on either side of the nose, and my middle finder inside the crease of the nose. Then you just do an overhand fling, loosening your fingers about 2/3rds of the way through he arc. All the folds at the nose, makes the nose heavy, so it turns around and flies nicely.
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- sekou 8y agoThis is wonderful. Long ago MS Publisher had templates that allowed you to build paper airplanes. I remember discovering this as a kid in elementary school with my friends.
- crazyprodigy 8y agoFeats of engineering performed with just a sheet of paper. Amazing!
- partycoder 8y agoTry to not be wasteful and don't use blank paper.
- anavies123 8y agomy response is this petition to get santa monica college to get their library to stay open 24 hours for hackathons https://bit.ly/2ynFMbl https://bit.ly/2ynFMbl
- kulu2002 8y agoThis is fantabulous! Thanks for sharing
- looper-life 8y agoWas never fond of arts and crafts at school, but when it came to building something outta paper, here I was, all the time paper airplanes. I really love flying in general, so this was my escape into an imaginary world! Thanks for this article in input! Kudos!
- spazzpp2 8y agoThe one I fold since 3rd grade is missing. The world champion in distance is missing, too.
- b0bby_tabl3s 8y agoHello non-productivity, my old friend. Happy Friday!
- Muha_ 8y agoIn childhood we knew one type of paper planes (http://korki.lol/kak-sdelat-bumazhnyiy-samoletik/ http://korki.lol/kak-sdelat-bumazhnyiy-samoletik/) and it looks like it is not here.
- modzu 8y agothey've gone to the trouble of making video instructions for each plane but they don't show it flying? what the
- mncolinlee 8y agoWhen I used to teach AP Computer Science, I'd have my students make paper airplanes on the first day. I'd have them write down the instructions to make their airplanes. Then I'd follow their instructions in the strictest, most literal sense possible, resulting in some lopsided airplanes. It was a great beginning lesson in algorithms.