best paper airoplane ever.

[5lab]

http://www.zurqui.com/crinfocus/paper/airplane.html

i just built one n its awesome. steps 18 and 19 are a bit tricky thou

[alexander]

16,17 and 18 and I am completely lost.

[Tumble]

thats ace....

[Twigman]

18. Study photos 18 and 19 carefully. These folds are difficult to describe. Try to duplicate them as shown in the photos.

Is where i get stuck...cause the photos are small and poor.

[Wyoming]

Frankly, no-one's going to beat my competition winning paper aeroplane from scouts. Oh those were the days, we had paper aeroplane flying competitions (we had to get them in a box from about 10 metres away). I always won.

Thankyou book of ultimate paper aeroplanes! There's one for every eventuality...

[Twigman]

Oh...well if we are bringing out our external resources...

/me reaches for hard back copy of:
AN INTRODUCTION TO THE PRINCIPLES OF AERONAUTICAL DESIGN AND THE SCIENCE OF AERODYNAMICS
The Executive Paper Aeroplane Making Kit
including Assembly Plans and Instructions for eight flying models

Kick ass book.

[tim_n]

it's a very bold statement, but given my afternoon out at my Dad's bosses I can prove the theory wrong.

His boss built something resembling a dead duck. My father built that exact aeroplane and I built a bog standard dart.

Who won? Well, it wasn't the dead duck.

My dart travelled a full 16 feet further than my fathers 'DC-3 of paper aeroplanes' in a graceful and controlled manner.

So ner-knicky-ner-ner...

[unreal]

haha I got to try one of these phreakin aeroplanes lol. (Not airoplanes )

O yes i see the airplane thing now... lol ignore me Obviously not educated enough in this area of aero-flya-thingy-nautics

[tim_n]

ooops, sorry...

It glided like no paper airplane I have ever seen before, it was acting like a REAL airplane. It gently curved into the slight breeze and began to rise vertically without moving forward. The craft then began to lower as if it were a helicopter and gently came to rest on the asphalt below.

I see the point now, it's not to be practical, but to give plane spotters something to drool over.

hmm.

Mine was still better. I still hold the record on declaring things 'best'.

[Twigman]

ooooooooooohhhhhhhhhhhhhhh................its not hard at all....he just turned it over...I didnt read that bit...oh right I see...yeah cool....done it

[alexander]

I spent 2 and a half solid hours on it and managed to it. I can now do it off by heart.

I have too much time on my hands.....

[Twigman]

Ok official results:

Construction:
Effort: 5/10 - others are much easier
Time: 3/10 - it does take a while

Flight:
Time: 3/10 - doesnt really go *that* well
Gracefulness: 4/10 - hmmm...paper darts fly better

Overall:
4/10
Its ok, but not that great tbh. The claims far outway the actual performance of the plane itself. I would not recommend changing to this model

[unreal]

Ok official results:

Construction:
Effort: 5/10 - others are much easier
Time: 3/10 - it does take a while

Flight:
Time: 3/10 - doesnt really go *that* well
Gracefulness: 4/10 - hmmm...paper darts fly better

Overall:
4/10
Its ok, but not that great tbh. The claims far outway the actual performance of the plane itself. I would not recommend changing to this model

Perhaps you should bug an admin to post that review on the front page?

[Konan555]

We all know the purpose of paper planes is mearly a target for catapults.

[tim_n]

And there was me thinking they were to hit teacher in the back of the head (when equiped with a blackened ink edge....)

goes back to reading Beano...

[IBM]

My grandad taught me how to build those years ago....they're great...many a happy afternoon during Economics class building those to throw out the window....