[HN Gopher] Paper Airplane Designs
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Paper Airplane Designs
Author : thunderbong
Score : 320 points
Date : 2023-05-26 17:48 UTC (5 hours ago)
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| noobcoder wrote:
| is there a way to query it?
| JKCalhoun wrote:
| Very cool. I always upvote anything about paper airplanes, ha ha.
|
| Many, many hours of my youth were spent making paper airplanes
| and flying them. I also enjoyed modifying designs with my own
| embellishments to see if my changes were improvements or no.
|
| Perhaps after catching "The Birdmen" (1971) on TV I became
| obsessed with building catapult-like paper airplane launchers
| using thread, paper clips and weights to drag the airplanes along
| the length of the kitchen table and send them sailing off the
| end.
|
| I think part of this was due to a lack of toys to entertain
| myself with (my sister and I, growing up with a single mother who
| worked as a secretary -- she stole office products so that I was
| kept in letter-size paper, pencils, pens). Perhaps too there were
| a lot of those months spent indoors in the either too-cold or
| too-hot/humid Midwest.
| jhanschoo wrote:
| My childhood interest in paper airplanes was completely fuelled
| by the excellent https://archive.org/details/PAPERAIR , which you
| can now find on the Internet Archive by the link! The emulation
| is imperfect, though.
| okl wrote:
| I had a book around the turn of the century with paper airplane
| folding instructions. Lazily, I stuck to the simple ones and my
| favourite was called "Phoenix". Could not find it on this page
| but searching for the book I found a video where the author
| demonstrates: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=2V55rc58cDg
| sumtechguy wrote:
| whenever a discussion like this comes up I try to recommend
| this book
|
| https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0671555510
|
| Not as simple as the one in that vid. But a decent selection of
| them.
| jareklupinski wrote:
| Spent a lot of time throwing paper rings:
| https://www.10paperairplanes.com/how-to-make-paper-airplanes...
|
| you get some really good distance if you throw it like a
| (american) football, managed to clear a couple city blocks once,
| thrown on a hot dry day from a high floor at school...
| jtr1 wrote:
| I spent a very fun holiday break methodically working through
| these with my nephew and documenting how far we could get them to
| fly. Big takeaway is that simpler is better and the classics are
| classic for a reason!
| hk1337 wrote:
| Put this in the list of things I didn't know I needed.
| mg wrote:
| I tried a lot of paper plane designs and this one is by far the
| most elegant design _and_ the best flying plane I found so far:
|
| https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EDiC9iMcWTc
|
| The simple flight path in the video does not relly do it justice.
| When you throw it outside, it will have a beautiful loooong
| curved flight. When there is some wind, it often goes to explore
| the sky for quite a while before it comes back down again.
|
| If anybody knows a design that can compete with this one, I would
| be _very_ interested to try it!
| nielsbot wrote:
| That's a great one. (The "Suzanne") Wired covered it a few
| years ago. Simple enough my 7 year old son can do a credible
| job of folding it.
|
| https://www.wired.com/story/learn-how-to-fold-a-world-record...
| mysterydip wrote:
| Something I've been curious about, are there paper airplane
| designs that translate to usable full scale designs? If not, why
| not?
| T3RMINATED wrote:
| [dead]
| dang wrote:
| We changed the url from https://www.foldnfly.com/lounge/national-
| paper-airplane-day.... to the home page, which is a better match
| for the title.
| thunderbong wrote:
| I should have titled it 'National Paper Airplane Day'!
| lbotos wrote:
| If you'll accept one piece of tape (not totally needed but does
| help) one of my favorite designs is the tube. Super easy to make,
| flies decently well, and surprises most people:
| https://www.instructables.com/The-Incredible-Flying-Paper-Tu...
| hackernewds wrote:
| Unacceptable!
| drewtato wrote:
| There's 48 designs, so this isn't much of a database, more like a
| short list. For something completely different, my favorite
| collection of paper planes are those by Jayson Merrill:
| https://www.youtube.com/@jayson5674 They're the most complex
| planes I've seen under the restrictions of no cuts and no
| adhesive. Here's a good one:
| https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K-n6NAbJduk
| doublepg23 wrote:
| The fact we have YouTube channels for people making paper
| airplanes, eating MREs and reviewing junk MP3 players is what
| keeps me optimistic of the Internet.
| dang wrote:
| Related:
|
| _Paper Airplane Designs (2013)_ -
| https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32134691 - July 2022 (96
| comments)
|
| _Paper Airplane Designs_ -
| https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29466325 - Dec 2021 (8
| comments)
|
| _Wake Turbulence from a Paper Airplane (2020) [video]_ -
| https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27137827 - May 2021 (29
| comments)
|
| _Paper Airplane Designs_ -
| https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23545860 - June 2020 (8
| comments)
|
| _Paper Airplane Designs_ -
| https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18249755 - Oct 2018 (206
| comments)
|
| _Designing, folding, and flying the finest paper airplanes
| [video]_ - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16784941 - April
| 2018 (11 comments)
|
| _Learn How to Fold a World-Record-Setting Paper Airplane_ -
| https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16715728 - March 2018 (14
| comments)
|
| _Real Paper Airplane Designs_ -
| https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12632253 - Oct 2016 (1
| comment)
|
| _The best paper airplane in the world_ -
| https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=420523 - Jan 2009 (30
| comments)
| standardly wrote:
| My cousin and I were particularly destructive children and used
| to build paper airplanes and fly them up into the ceiling fan.
| Sometimes they'd get caught on a blade and come flying off. Was
| playing a lot of Starfox 64 at the time, so we imagined we were
| attacking a boss. We'd try and see how many attacks we could get
| in before our plane was completely mangled and wouldn't fly
| anymore. Good times.
|
| Another destructive game we used to play was lighting army men on
| fire and fusing their melted plastic bodies together to create a
| zombie army of plastic amalgamations. Half-green, half-tan
| grenadiers with bazookas for a heads, etc. God bless America!
| timbeccue wrote:
| Hah, I flew planes into ceiling fans too! I also remember
| scraping my planes against the floor until holes wore into the
| paper, and seeing how well they could continue flying. There
| was something really cool about seeing a plane with so much
| accumulated damage still able to fly.
| yabones wrote:
| I'm surprised they don't have the "lock fold" or "Nakamura Lock"
| design. When I was younger, that was the most consistent design
| for a _good_ plane. Not always the best, but never the worst.
| Somebody talented could fold up a dart to beat it on distance, or
| a glider to stay up longer, but everybody could make a decent
| "lock fold".
|
| https://origamimag.com/nakamura-lock-paper-airplane/
| andrewflnr wrote:
| This one doesn't cut it? https://www.foldnfly.com/2.html#The-
| Stable Granted, they fold the wings a really weird/ugly way.
| Also this variant for some reason:
| https://www.foldnfly.com/29.html#Lock-Bottom-Plane
|
| That's not even the kind of lock I expected. It's possible to
| design a plane so once the wings are folded down, the fuselage
| is locked in a tightly folded position. I don't have a good
| online reference at the moment...
| takoid wrote:
| This is the exact same design I used in middle school to win a
| paper airplane competition! It is called "The Moth" on the
| website I found it on back in the day:
| https://www.10paperairplanes.com/how-to-make-paper-
| airplanes.... I still remember how to make it to this day.
| tommywiseausmom wrote:
| design this paper plane. (grabs crotch) oh!
| felipesabino wrote:
| It has been a while that I try to find the design for this type
| of paper plane [1] that glides so smoothly and allows you to
| guide it.
|
| I am not even sure how to search for it, even with this database
| in hands
|
| [1] https://youtu.be/UVUQC_yZe_Y
| JKCalhoun wrote:
| Filter by "Time Aloft" [1]. I did and don't see the specific
| plane in the YT video (they certainly don't have every airplane
| in their database).
|
| Search for Walkalong Glider [2] to find what you want.
|
| [1] https://www.foldnfly.com/#/0-1-0-0-1-1-1-1-2
|
| [2]
| https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=walkalong+glide...
| felipesabino wrote:
| "Walkalong Glider", uow, I didn't even know the term to look
| for, thanks!
| lelanthran wrote:
| Honestly it looks like it is flying solely on the thermals from
| his breath.
|
| Still pretty cool though :-)
| voynich wrote:
| Glad to see that paper airplane culture is still alive, haha. I
| was looking forward to this day for a while!
| m463 wrote:
| Many years as a kid were spent reading through this old book my
| father had:
|
| The Great International Paper Airplane Book
|
| https://archive.org/details/greatinternation00mandrich
| caboteria wrote:
| When I was 10 or 11 years old I won a mai-tai cocktail in a
| paper airplane contest at Club Med. I used the helicopter from
| this book!
| Pxtl wrote:
| Paper Plane:
|
| - 1oz Amaro Nonino
|
| - 1oz Aperol
|
| - 1oz bourbon
|
| - 1oz lemon juice
|
| shake with ice, strain to a chilled coupe glass.
| swarnie wrote:
| A very short one and done drink by the sounds of it.
| doublepg23 wrote:
| I appreciated OpenWRT's prior release naming system which
| included cocktail recipes in the Message of the Day (MOTD) http
| s://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenWrt#:~:text=OpenWrt%20rele....
| ktm5j wrote:
| I think it's really cute how they handled the case if the user
| unchecks all of either the "Type" or "Difficulty" filters hehe
| duxup wrote:
| I like the implication that there was a goof on someone's part.
|
| I get a lot of "yeah but what if they do something like search
| for things that don't exist" (or similar situations) and some
| weird ideas follow about how they user gets confused and the
| software is supposed to solve all "user behaves illogically"
| problems and we get some really strange solutions that makes
| the software even more unpredictable.
|
| Like no man, search for nothing is "yo you goofed and searched
| for nothing".
|
| /rant
| HiroProtagonist wrote:
| Same, thank you for mentioning it elsewise I would never have
| seen it.
| rootusrootus wrote:
| I wonder if they've tested that one against conventional
| designs. Depending on how well you compress the ball, it might
| well be very competitive for distance.
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