Paper airplanes

[InsaneHawkJJP]

I was making a bunch for some 3 to 9 yo kids today and was teaching the oldest ones how to do it. I started with the basic dart airplane I was taught as a kid.

Then I looked online for some designs and was blown away at all the different varieties. I decided to make this one because it looked fairly simple. It turned out pretty good.

The kids had a blast making and throwing their paper airplanes and some hopefully learned something that they won’t forget.

So what is the best or most unique paper airplane you’ve created HBOT?

 

[TC Nole OX]

 

[DooBi]

Csb: when my son was little he got a book for Christmas once that had 100 different paper plane designs. Every other page had instructions while the opposite page was made to rip out of the book with dotted lines where the folds go. It was really cool and we had a lot of fun for a couple weeks.

 

[bojihawk44]

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[thewop]

I was making a bunch for some 3 to 9 yo kids today and was teaching the oldest ones how to do it. I started with the basic dart airplane I was taught as a kid.

Then I looked online for some designs and was blown away at all the different varieties. I decided to make this one because it looked fairly simple. It turned out pretty good.

The kids had a blast making and throwing their paper airplanes and some hopefully learned something that they won’t forget.

So what is the best or most unique paper airplane you’ve created HBOT?

We had a party at our house before I had kids, but we welcomed those with kids to bring them. I realized quickly we had nothing to entertain kids. Pile of printer paper to the rescue...I made paper airplanes with some of the kids, and they were entertained for about 2 hours...

Paper airplanes are genius.

My son started by making a lot of different ones, then moved to origami. Hes a little older now and doesn't do it very much.

 

[PoopandBoogers]

I was making a bunch for some 3 to 9 yo kids today and was teaching the oldest ones how to do it. I started with the basic dart airplane I was taught as a kid.

Then I looked online for some designs and was blown away at all the different varieties. I decided to make this one because it looked fairly simple. It turned out pretty good.

The kids had a blast making and throwing their paper airplanes and some hopefully learned something that they won’t forget.

So what is the best or most unique paper airplane you’ve created HBOT?

One of my favorite memories was in 4th grade when our class had a paper plane contest. Horrible teacher, but that was one of the most engaging and educational lessons Id ever had up until that point. Felt like that was the transition into big boy, real learning.

We had a dork that was obsessed with Top Gun and the air force (later joined CAP, Florida Air Academy, and later the AF) whose plane was all decked out with Tomcat graphics and paper clips. The look on his face when his plane pulled a Goose and kamikazied nose first 15' away as the chubby loud-mouthed girl's sloppy assed, wrinkled folded paper miraculously and calmly soared 100' allllllllll the way down the hallway, catching drafts and soaring a bit further a few times was priceless.

 

[cfbfan23]

 

[SoonerBeAHawk]

Not paper airplanes but close enough I hope ...

When I was kid you could buy a balsa wood airplane - paper thin wings and a red plastic propeller powered by a rubber band - for 25 cents. Cheap, but good thing cuz they'd last for only a handful of flights it seemed.

I always threw them with the wind. As an 8-year-old kid that's what intuition tells you, damnit! They would maybe climb to 12 ft and fly 50 ft?

As you're probably guessing, on a whim one day I threw it INTO the wind. OH THE MAGIC! It climbed, and climbed, and climbed some more until it was as high as the neighbor's giant two-story house. It traveled maybe a hundred yards or more!

Pure giddiness for an 8-year-old. Nice memory.

 

[InsaneHawkJJP]

Not paper airplanes but close enough I hope ...

When I was kid you could buy a balsa wood airplane - paper thin wings and a red plastic propeller powered by a rubber band - for 25 cents. Cheap, but good thing cuz they'd last for only a handful of flights it seemed.

I always threw them with the wind. As an 8-year-old kid that's what intuition tells you, damnit! They would maybe climb to 12 ft and fly 50 ft?

As you're probably guessing, on a whim one day I threw it INTO the wind. OH THE MAGIC! It climbed, and climbed, and climbed some more until it was as high as the neighbor's giant two-story house. It traveled maybe a hundred yards or more!

Pure giddiness for an 8-year-old. Nice memory.

I remember those. Good memories!

 

[BelemNole]

The GOAT

 

[pink shizzle]

I actually never learned how to make one. My friends made some pretty detailed ones and they let me throw theirs. I'm a leech.

 

[h-hawk]

Not paper airplanes but close enough I hope ...

When I was kid you could buy a balsa wood airplane - paper thin wings and a red plastic propeller powered by a rubber band - for 25 cents. Cheap, but good thing cuz they'd last for only a handful of flights it seemed.

I always threw them with the wind. As an 8-year-old kid that's what intuition tells you, damnit! They would maybe climb to 12 ft and fly 50 ft?

As you're probably guessing, on a whim one day I threw it INTO the wind. OH THE MAGIC! It climbed, and climbed, and climbed some more until it was as high as the neighbor's giant two-story house. It traveled maybe a hundred yards or more!

Pure giddiness for an 8-year-old. Nice memory.

You could also buy the smaller gliders without propellers. One of our neighbors had a driveway cut into the side of the hill. We moved the wings back to make the gliders climb faster and threw them down at the concrete from the sides of the driveway, hoping they would pull up and clear the other side.
We had recently seen 633 Squadron about the Mosquitos attacking the German targets in the Norwegian Fjord

 

[InsaneHawkJJP]

I actually never learned how to make one. My friends made some pretty detailed ones and they let me throw theirs. I'm a leech.

It’s never too late broseph.

 

[SoonerBeAHawk]

I remember those. Good memories!

Out of curiosity I checked online and the one that most resembled the ones I would buy was $11.99 at Bass Pro!

That's insane, Insane!

I don't wanna live in a world where a runny-nosed kid with a quarter, a dime, two nickels, and a penny in his pocket can't walk into a Dime Store and buy a balsa plane and three pieces of candy and be happy!

 

[InsaneHawkJJP]

Out of curiosity I checked online and the one that most resembled the ones I would buy was $11.99 at Bass Pro!

That's insane, Insane!

I don't wanna live in a world where a runny-nosed kid with a quarter, a dime, two nickels, and a penny in his pocket can't walk into a Dime Store and buy a balsa plane and three pieces of candy and be happy!

Fvcking Biden!

Did I do that right?

 

[Nole-4-Life]

This was the one we had the most fun with.

 

[Moral]

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It's too bad what happened to M.I.A. She turned into a weirdo Christian and endorsed Trump.

 

[InsaneHawkJJP]

It's too bad what happened to M.I.A. She turned into a weirdo Christian and endorsed Trump.

 

[onlyTheObvious]

Saw an aerospace engineering student make one about 35 years ago at a sporting event. See who get get closest to target at center ice type of thing.

Good lord it was impressive. It was more like a hollow cylinder and he spun it and it just sort of floated. Must have impressed me to remember it all these years later.

 

[PoopandBoogers]

This was the one we had the most fun with.

Boeing! Yikes! Do the wings fall off and disappear into the pool?