u/Crumbsnatcher508

I saw this woman launch a white wings on a Japanese competition video and thought it was pretty slick.

Full video of the competition here:

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=WuZEqR5adwc

Now, I admit I'm into paper planes, but analyzing launch technique is next level dork stuff. What do you think, have I gone off the deep end?

I've posted this free plane a few times over the years, it's time to share it again. Here's the original post:

https://www.reddit.com/r/PaperAirplanes/s/slFMuTGlFr

It's on the smaller side so that it isn't too flimsy. This way, you can build it with whatever cardstock you have available. Manilla folder works, cereal box works, cardstock and bristol paper will definitely work, but copy paper will not work.

It's a TERRIFIC airplane in the air. It can handle elastic launches, so shoot it up nice and high! I'd love it if you post a pic of what you build, but if you have fun with it, I'm happy.

I got an anemometer last year, it was a $10 impulse purchase. It measures wind speed, air temperature and a few other things. I haven't found a good use for it yet, so I thought I'd ask you all. Right now it mostly hangs from my neck with my stopwatch.

What would you use this for? How would you improve your flying with the data this provides?

Looks like I stayed at the park too long again. I wasn't trying to launch too hard, I already lost one flinging it into orbit. So, nothing fancy, just a nice gentle glide.

This is one of two planes I built to compare flight characteristics (the planes are called Arm and Hammer). I got it all tuned up and filmed this flight, where it deftly maneuvered through the pine branches and lived to see another day!

I'm not gonna press my luck any further, so I'm heading home. 😂

My hobby is about to become a business, I make and fly performance paper airplanes. These are basically over-engineered paper planes that are designed to fly for a very long time (check out r/paperairplanes if you're interested).

The plane parts are cut with a laser cutter, which uses vector images to create the cuts. They're very simple line drawings by the standards of the art I see here.

I'm interested in learning about tablets to draw vector images and create new airplanes, but I'm only just now learning about tablets specific to drawing. When I began making these airplanes, I loved drawing the designs with pencil and paper. I've done it on my laptop with a mouse, but it doesn't deliver the results I want.

Questions:

-Given the simplicity of the drawings, should I use a simple, everyday tablet? Or should I look into a tablet specific to drawing?

-Would you recommend any YouTube tutorials to educate me on how to use your tablet of choice?

I had some family over for the holiday weekend and told them about how I built a few paper planes for a flying experiment with thermal updrafts. They've heard about me flying these things for years now, but have never seen it in action.

We go to the park, and I adjust, tune and test fly these newly built airplanes a hundred times. When I got it dialed in, the flights were over 30 seconds consistently, so my Aunt filmed a few flights. Her filming is WAY better than mine, so that's what I'm sharing here.

I never got my thermal. So, while I was disappointed in my flight times, my family was AMAZED by the hang time on these things. Which was pretty neat.

Have a great weekend!

Got a killer hot dog in Florida. Vienna dog on a poppyseed bun topped with fried shrimp, onions, Sriracha and cheddar cheese. Served with Frito pie and lemonade.

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A triumph of humanity.

Up for sale is a quality looking origami paper airplane. And 200 feet is pretty far!

Wanted to put out a thank you to the community here that steered me in the right direction 8 months ago.

I asked this community about best practices for throwing paper airplanes off of cliffs. I got a pretty universal response, and I took it very seriously:

https://www.reddit.com/r/hiking/s/KynIJM2HEb

I went back to the cliff I referenced in my question post and was glad I didn't follow through on my plan 6 months earlier:

https://www.reddit.com/r/PaperAirplanes/s/69rK64iUBC

Thanks again for helping me understand more about being a steward of these gorgeous places. You all were pretty good about not making me feel like an idiot for not knowing any better, and some of you were mighty supportive!

Roughly 2 and a half years ago, I was living in Colorado. I just asked my girlfriend to move out and I was breathing easier after I ended the relationship. I was at the mountain-top gift shop at Pikes Peak where I saw balsa airplanes for sale. I took that thought with me while I got some Chinese noodles, sat outside and wondered what to do with my new found free time.

It was that combination of things that reminded me of White Wings paper planes from childhood. The altitude, the balsa plane and the disposable chopsticks. I put the chopsticks in my pocket, went home and designed an airplane around them. The next day I built what you see here (the body is made from the chopstick).

It's become my most satisfying hobby, especially as an adult. And after posting a TON on reddit, I still get messages from people looking for all sorts of paper airplane advice. And that's where I would like to thank this community for all that we've shared.

I've seen a bunch of people come and go, and others that have been here longer than myself. I've started impromptu business arrangements with hobby shop owners, had a spoken-word poem written about my flying, developed pen pals around the world and unintentionally fed numerous dogs some of the tastiest paper airplanes.

It's been great. And I still have work to do here. Thanks for hanging out and flying paper airplanes with me.