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Re:Fold Epic Paper Airplanes by FoldableFlight on Monday November 09, 2026 @02:08PM (#50430125)
Hi everyone! I'm Kyle — the creator behind Foldable Flight (the website linked in the original post). It's very fun to read these comments and to hear about your experience using the site and folding the planes featured on it! I've been designing paper airplanes since I was a child, and have shared many of my designs freely through my website and on YouTube. Foldable Flight also features planes from many other designers, including the world record planes for distance and time aloft.

Please comment with any feedback you have regarding the site. I hope to improve its existing features and to add additional features in the future.

Re:Fold Epic Paper Airplanes by yreg on Monday November 09, 2026 @05:00PM (#50432868)
Hi!

The reappearing sheet asking me to subscribe to some newsletter is incredibly annoying. And it seems that it sometimes refreshes the website when I close it?

Who of the first time visitors would even want to subscribe to such a thing before seeing pretty much any content? Does it have a reasonable conversion?

The planes seem cool though!

Re:Fold Epic Paper Airplanes by hinkley on Monday November 09, 2026 @09:02PM (#50435149)
Not sometimes, every time. It’s obnoxious.
Re:Fold Epic Paper Airplanes by FoldableFlight on Tuesday November 10, 2026 @11:26AM (#50442596)
I'll look into that. Are you using the website on desktop or mobile?

Before my website was posted here, most traffic came from viewers of my YouTube channel, so the website homepage isn't their first interaction with Foldable Flight content. That's why I've had the newsletter popup there. Perhaps it's too disruptive to the user experience, though it does have a good conversion rate.

Re:Fold Epic Paper Airplanes by baruz on Monday November 09, 2026 @08:43PM (#50435029)
I really enjoyed your designs for the PowerUp flight thing. What kinds of designs adapt best to that “platform”? Do you find that it opens up possibilities that are unviable when used for unpowered flight? Are there any design decisions that you tend to make for the Powerup that you don’t usually make for your unpowered planes?

Thanks!

Re:Fold Epic Paper Airplanes by FoldableFlight on Tuesday November 10, 2026 @11:20AM (#50442499)
Thanks! There are two primary variables to consider when designing planes for the PowerUp platforms:

1. The chord length of the plane's wings (their length from front to back) needs to be similar to the length of the PowerUp unit, but shorter.

2. The surface area of the plane's wings needs to be great enough that the wings generate sufficient lift to compensate for the added weight of the PowerUp unit. The PowerUp 4.0 (the remote controlled version) generates more thrust than the PowerUp 2.0 and works with more paper airplanes as a result.

It is possible to design planes that work with the PowerUp units, but do not work on their own. That said, my primary interest is in designing paper airplanes that fly without the need for the PowerUp units, so all of my designs fly on their own. The only exception to this rule is Hammerhead — a plane I designed specifically for The PowerUp Paper Airplane Book, which contains 10 planes designed to work with the PowerUp units.

Re:Fold Epic Paper Airplanes by hinkley on Monday November 09, 2026 @09:02PM (#50435152)
Your site is buggy af on mobile safari to the point of being unusable.
Re:Fold Epic Paper Airplanes by backprojection on Monday November 09, 2026 @11:39PM (#50436121)
Hey man just wanted to say thank you, my kid loves your channel/patreon. He spends _hours_ folding planes, mixing up and iterating designs. Every corner of the house is filled with discarded planes.

His box of kept planes: https://imgur.com/a/2HW8tC2

Re:Fold Epic Paper Airplanes by FoldableFlight on Tuesday November 10, 2026 @11:28AM (#50442630)
That's awesome! I'm glad he's enjoying my planes, and I'm especially thrilled that he's iterating designs!
Re:Fold Epic Paper Airplanes by grandiose on Tuesday November 10, 2026 @12:50AM (#50436574)
Your site seems super interesting but it’s unusable on mobile (iOS), it keeps prompting newsletter stuff and crashing.
Re:Fold Epic Paper Airplanes by rc1 on Tuesday November 10, 2026 @04:32AM (#50437961)
Can you point international folks to Amazon or other sellers? The postage is expensive (more than the book) Was going to give up but then found Amazon had it for £7 postage or ‘free’ with prime.