Topic: Fold Your Own Sky King Paper Airplane  (Read 1886 times)

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Offline knightstorm

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Fold Your Own Sky King Paper Airplane
« on: December 03, 2009, 04:00:57 pm »
http://howto.wired.com/wiki/Fold_Your_Own_Sky_King_Paper_Airplane

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Takuo Toda's signature paper airplane is no ordinary bit of origami. After launch on April 11, the snub-nosed craft wafted so high into the rafters of the vast Fukuyama Big Rose Hall in Hiroshima, Japan, that the camera operator recording the flight lost sight of it for a couple of seconds. The clock kept ticking. Finally, 27.9 seconds after it left Toda's hand, the fittingly named Sky King drifted to the ground, ending a flight 0.3 seconds longer than the previous world record for a paper plane.

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Re: Fold Your Own Sky King Paper Airplane
« Reply #1 on: December 05, 2009, 11:41:43 am »
Looks like gimped version of something I used to fold years ago.  There was a book of paper airplanes that was essentially touting a different kind of airfoil, a kind of notched airfoil, that gave a lot of lift and low speed stability.


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