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Paper Airplane Flight Around Corridors

submitted by grinter

1 decade 3 years 7 months 2 weeks ago

"An indoor paper airplane walkalong glider is flown down several corridors. A sheet of clear plastic manipulated by the pilot creates a wave of rising air under the paper airplane which both sustains and controls its flight. For more information on how the glider is made please see:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=It_juQxkR8E
For information on other designs see the web site on Controllable Slope Soaring:
http://sites.google.com/site/controllableslopesoaring/Home/paperairplanewalka..."
^pasted from youtube description

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If you want to get into these, or incorporate them into a school curriculum, this site may be the place to go:
http://www.sciencetoymaker.org/hangGlider/index.htm

kronosposeidon

*wings

Adding video to channels (Wings) - requested by kronosposeidon.

Somebody's been watching rock-n-roll high school

Cut before "Get back to work slacker"

Coolest thing I've seen all week. Now, for the commercial applications...

Um, anyone know any giants?

Opus_Moderandi says...

Dammit, I read Paper Airplane Fight Around Corridors...

dag

Comment hidden because you are ignoring dag.(show it anyway)

Very cool.

Fucking aerodynamics, how do they work?

It's like playing starfox!

>> ^residue:

It's like playing starfox!

Yeah, except Toad doesn't keep getting into trouble and beg you to save his incompetent ass.

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