Paper Plane

Make a paper fly.

Sites

• Fold and Fly — Collections of paper planes' designs with type and difficulty labelled
• Origami Ma Paper Airplanes
• 10PaperAirPlanes

YouTube Channel:

• Foldable Flight — A lot of cool designs
• Jayson Merrill — cool looking origami planes

Books:

• The New World Champion Paper Airplane Book: The Pioneering Design for the Record-Breaking Distance Plane (2013)
• The Great International Paper Airplane Book (1967)

Links

• YouTube: Aerodynamics Explained by a World Record Paper Airplane Designer | WIRED (John Collins)
  • Types of paper planes: dart, phoenix, super canard, tube, Suzanne
  • Two things that can improve any paper plane: Dihedral angle and up elevators
  • Forces: thrust, gravity, drag, lift
  • Bernoulli's principle does not apply to aeroplane wings
  • Coanda effect: air being vectored down by a curved surface pushes the wing upward
  • Wing loading: weight of the plane divided by the area of the wing, the lower means the plane can fly slower
  • A stall is either caused by too slow of airspeed or too high an angle of incidence
  • Boundary layer effect: air gets stuck to the surface (ball curves)
  • Reynolds number: ratio of inertial force to viscous force, high (turbulent), low (laminar)
  • Suzanne: turbulent flow at high speed and laminar flow at low speed
• YouTube: How This Guy Folds and Flies World Record Paper Airplanes | WIRED
  • Or this one: How to fold the world record paper plane | ThePaperAirplaneGuy
  • John Collins tutorial on how to fold the Suzanne
• YouTube: John Collins, “Paper Airplane Guy”
  • John Collins on different kinds of paper planes