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Fold Epic Paper Airplanes

Fold Epic Paper Airplanes

vismit2000

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  • literallyanythi
    Scrolled down the page, saw this "Very Easy" 1 minute planehttps://www.foldableflight.com/planes/mysticStarted watching the video not planning on actually making it, saw that it is done with A4 paper and grabbed a random sheet at my desk to follow along. The pocket felt like a nice "a-ha!" moment. As someone who only knew the "naive" way to make paper airplanes from A4 paper, this is the best performing and prettiest paper airplane I've made in my life! It almost feels like it's not real how smoothly it stays straight in the air compared to all my paper airplanes in childhood.Edit: Tried making the flapping wings AeroDactyl but it didn't work out :( wasn't aerodynamic and didn't flap its wings just went straight to the groundEdit 2: Tried making the Jetstream (another 1 minute plane) and it came out well! Mine is INCREDIBLY asymmetrical and still flies better than any other plane I've made other than the Mystic!
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  • intrasight
    I have a story to share. In 1978 as a preteen, my mother made me take piano lessons. God bless her for trying. Anyway, while waiting for my class in the lobby of the music school, I would often make paper airplanes. One day, an older gentleman came over and said that he wanted to gift me something. What he gave me was his copy of "The great international paper airplane book". And remains one of my cherished books or really possessions. But I'm getting older now and feel that the time has come for me to find a 13-year-old worthy of this gift. But it's quite a leap of faith, for me anyway, to convey such a gift.https://archive.org/details/greatinternation00jerr/mode/1up
  • tombert
    When I would visit my grandmother as a kid, my parents wouldn't let me bring a game console with me, and she lived in the middle of nowhere so I would get bored pretty easily.One summer, I had brought a book on how to make different paper airplanes. My grandmother had this huge crate of dot matrix printer paper [1] that I was given freedom to use to my heart's content.I made hundreds of planes, of varying quality. I even did quasi-scientific tests to see which ones would fly farther, and I used a rubber band extended to the same length each time to try and ensure I was applying roughly the same amount of force in each launch.I look back at that time pretty fondly. It was the only time in my life that I actually had fun visiting my grandmother's house.[1] Even at the time this was somewhat outdated; she had a normal inkjet printer at the time so the paper was basically useless as printer paper.
  • amenghra
    It would be nicer if the paper used in the videos were different color on each side. Maybe even checkered?I folded the Vanguard (https://www.foldableflight.com/planes/vanguard), can attest that it’s relatively easy, looks great (kiddo loves it) and flies better than any plane I have previously folded.
  • magicalhippo
    My dad worked overtime in the evening a fair bit. He'd often bring me when I was a young teen. The building was several stories tall with a huge open central core, just a flight of stairs on one end.I'd go to the top floor, take a bunch of paper from the printer room and fold planes, and send them out into the central space. Go back, tweak the design or try something new, launch again.Don't think I came up with any good designs, but I had a lot of fun trying various ideas.
  • anon2930193
    Adding my own story: Foldable Flight, the YouTube channel, is what allowed me to cope with Covid lockdowns with a five year old; every day we would sit together for at least an hour and fold increasingly sophisticated paper aeroplanes together.My son is now 11 and he still folds, has mastered advanced origami skills, and also has organised four yearly paper aeroplane competitions. All down to Kyle Boyer and his Foldable Flight channel.From the bottom of my heart, thank you Kyle!
  • derdrdirk
    Wouldn't have expected 40min video to fold an airplane: https://www.foldableflight.com/planes/lancer!
  • fifilura
    I had a book for this when I was a kid, but since I lived in Europe, all I had was A4 format paper and most models were for Letter or folio format!Obviously the book was translated from US.I don't remember how bad it was in practice but I remember it made me sad.
  • kzsh
    Is this not just a reskin of https://foldnfly.com/ ?
  • cogogo
    My parents subscribed to several magazines when I was a kid and any time a new one arrived I would shake out the subscription signup mail cards and make paper airplanes. They were small but something about the thickness of the paper made it very satisfying to fold and the planes fly very well.I guess those cards must still exist but it has been ages since I have read a real magazine. I had a couple of dumb subscriptions in college but do not think I have ever had any since. Should consider it for our kids and to get me off my phone.
  • konichiwAI
    Going to use this with my kid. Cheers
  • vr46
    Nothing will ever replace Campbell Morris' Advanced Paper Aircraft Construction volumes 1-3 (or was it 4) for me, but this looks modern and ideal for young and aspiring ballistic cellulose aeronautical engineers.
  • willrshansen
    - Airplane name isn't a link (only the image)- Can't sort the airplanes- Instructions are video only
  • andai
    That's a cool website. Is there a benchmark for these? I noticed some of these have scores ("Flies over x feet!") and some don't.Mostly I'm just curious, how well does the standard crappy paper airplane fly, which every kid makes in school, how well does it fly relative to some of these world record winners? (Some of which have a lot more folds and measuring and tape than I was expecting!)
  • cube00
    Click on the first design, only way to learn how to fold is with a 10 minute YouTube video with plenty of the usual padding to get it to 10 minutes+ and "if you don't have the template" spread throughout.So basically just buy the $35 worth of books and templates they're selling if you actually want to do this instead of playing and pausing a YT video a hundred times to get through this.I think I'll fire up Publisher '97 and relive my paper plane memories.
  • metchio
    As a father of 4 kids (which of them 3 are boys) this is amazing. Will start trying some new plane design tonight !
  • mands
    My 6 yr olds favourite website - pretty cool to see it here. The book was great gift for him as well.
  • archargelod
    - Annoying mail popup that returns after being closed and is not remembered on refresh- Every action takes 3-10 seconds, including pressing on regular ass links- There's a big yellow button "Fold planes" on main page that redirects you to the main page?- Login is a blue text on blue background- You have to click on the image of the plane to get to it's page, clicking on text doesn't work (small thing, but very unintuitive)Is there something wrong with my browser, or it's a website?
  • NookDavoos
    Too bad its just a bunch of youtube videos. Still cool!
  • contravariant
    Intermediate shows up twice for some reason.
  • p2detar
    Impressive and a bit uncanny, since I was just looking for something like this just yesterday, to help the kids fold.
  • adg001
    In hindsight, folding paper airplanes as a kid was the first testbench in rapid prototyping, and a forerunner to the fail fast philosophy.
  • neuronexmachina
    Cool, there's a bunch of designs I've never seen before.
  • mkw5053
    I’ve been folding A LOT of paper airplanes with my 3-year-old lately so this is perfect timing!
  • bovermyer
    Some really fascinating designs in there. I might have to have a go at making the Quill!
  • nojvek
    This needs a frontier curve for the planes.
  • boxed
    My son watched a ton of this at age ~8 or so. He built some really crazy stuff from memory and our house was full of great designs for like a year. Pretty great channel imo.
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