It gets a bit tricky through the middle section but after you do it about 20 times like I did you become a master at it and it's real simple. Then go out side windy or not and throw it as hard as you can straight up and watch it fly.
It got me thinking though... the paper plane seems like such a basic and easy concept. But, before they evented the aeroplane, did the paper plane exist??? surely not otherwise they would have worked out how to build a big plane, yet paper planes are so simple?
I wonder.. did Galileo or whoever invented the aeroplane (excuse my obvious ignorance/lack of knowledge) draw plans on paper then scrunch them up and throw them in the bin, or did they fold them into a plane and throw it in the bin?
Didn't that fellow who had a thing for apples also fly a kite, a long time ago?
Do you mean Sir Isaac Newton, who flew kites as a kid to dangle lamps from, or Benjamin Franklin who dangled a key in a storm....... but I don't know for sure that Franklin liked apples!
Do you mean Sir Isaac Newton, who flew kites as a kid to dangle lamps from, or Benjamin Franklin who dangled a key in a storm....... but I don't know for sure that Franklin liked apples!
Hehehehe good answer, I suppose I meant SIN, but regardless of which one I was thinking of, the core point is that both these chaps lived well before the advent of mechanical flight and they flew kites
Btw, I haven't forgotten you, I am still saving as you will read elsewhere I got a starter scope to tide me over till I can raise your kings ransom
When i was working on the oil rigs in BHP Wollongong we used to make paper planes and go up to there helicopterdeck and stand then on there way. It was great because we where about 30 story's above the ground and that use to to until you could not see then anymore.
Here is one I sortta invented . The concept is not new as I found out after I posted it elsewhere seeking an opinion if it could work, I found out there is an ultra light in USA using the “ring wing” approach even plans for huge planes built in this fashion that never were built . It is made by making an a4 sheet into a cylinder length ways and cutting a section about 45 degrees across. Fold in little vanes at the top and bottom place weight on the bottom vane and test fly, adjust until it glides and there it is . The bottom on the one in the photo needs some blue tack so I have not flown this one ..no blue tack or paper clips anywhere .. but with a little trimming they glide very well and flattened it a little more and it will fly upside down as well …looks very cool upside down .
Alex
Why of course Ric but try standard paper on the prototype . If you look at John’s avatar (Tirock) you will see a kite version . He took the idea and built a kite and says it flies wonderfully well. I came up with the idea in an effort to make a real flying machine using the materials available to Leonardo D Vinci in his time but one that would fly safely . The design means if your motor cuts out (in a big one) you would glide in a spiral safely to ground. It should not “stall” on take off no matter how hard one tried to climb. Make sure you try it upside down it looks like the star ship enterprise
Alex
I believe it was Leonardo Da Vinci who invented the aeriplane, and the helicopter. And the tank lol.
The best paper plane I have ever made looks something like a bishops hat, and you kind of just let it go. Flies perfectly straight and level every time.
as you will read elsewhere I got a starter scope to tide me over till I can raise your kings ransom 
. The concept is not new as I found out after I posted it elsewhere seeking an opinion if it could work, I found out there is an ultra light in USA using the “ring wing” approach even plans for huge planes built in this fashion that never were built
. It is made by making an a4 sheet into a cylinder length ways and cutting a section about 45 degrees across. Fold in little vanes at the top and bottom place weight on the bottom vane and test fly, adjust until it glides and there it is
.. but with a little trimming they glide very well and flattened it a little more and it will fly upside down as well
…looks very cool upside down
