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Re:Paper Airplane Designs by dirktheman on Thursday October 18, 2018 @03:56PM (#18251588)
I've recently started running a STEM club for girls. One of the lessons is about flight: what makes an airplane fly, and can we design a better airplane than the standard 6-fold-arrow?

I've been searching the internet for a website that ranks paper planes both difficulty AND purpose. You just saved me a lot of time. On behalf of the girls in my club: thank you!

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Re:Paper Airplane Designs by amphibian87 on Thursday October 18, 2018 @05:59PM (#18252524)
That's awesome. I have fond memories of similar experiments in physics, where the winning group used the "paper clip" trick to put some weight on the nose.

The world record paper airplane flight is just a straight up rectangle haha.

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Re:Paper Airplane Designs by thatcat on Friday October 19, 2018 @11:16AM (#18257256)
>just a rectangle

Haha, that makes sense though since it optimizes for maximum surface area resisting descent.

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