paper plane
Tue Mar 13 14:13:06 EDT 2018
I designed a paper airplane in about 7th or 8th grade. It flies really well. I don't think anyone else knows how to make it. I should document it, or the design will be lost with my death.
It uses an 8.5"x11" (21.59cm x 27.94cm) sheet of paper (a standard US size) and requires no cutting or tearing, no taping, and no estimating/guessing where to fold. (Those were constraints I imposed.) Unlike most paper planes, the long side of the page is the front/rear, not the short side. (I.e. it has a high aspect ratio.)
It resembles a Rogollo wing. It has a very stable glide, and can be trimmed to fly in a circle and return to the thrower.
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I designed a paper airplane in about 7th or 8th grade. It flies really well. I don't think anyone else knows how to make it. I should document it, or the design will be lost with my death.
It uses an 8.5"x11" (21.59cm x 27.94cm) sheet of paper (a standard US size) and requires no cutting or tearing, no taping, and no estimating/guessing where to fold. (Those were constraints I imposed.) Unlike most paper planes, the long side of the page is the front/rear, not the short side. (I.e. it has a high aspect ratio.)
It resembles a Rogollo wing. It has a very stable glide, and can be trimmed to fly in a circle and return to the thrower.
[This entry was originally posted as https://syntonic-comma.dreamwidth.org/964715.html on Dreamwidth (where there are
comments).]