Bryan Wood

Bryan Wood

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How far can you throw the paper airplane? My best so far is 9.87 meters. Trying to figure out how to get it out the window for some real distance. ;)
Edit: Out the window, loop, past buildings and onto the grass and a Lear parks next to it. 48.53 meters

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Blue Skies,
 
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Out the Window!

Yeah...it took "a few throws"...38.702 Meters! :D

Reminds me of a paper airplane contest my Aerospace Engineering Department sponsored back at school, on Engineers Day. We had two categories - longest distance, and longest time aloft. Us Aero guys spent months working on design, testing them, refining thm....then we held the competition in the atrium of the Architecture Building - two stories, a balcony - nice place.

The Architecture Students walked away with both trophies! Longest distance? They wadded up the sheet of paper into a tight ball and pitched it all the way across the space. Longest time? They grabbed a sheet of the lightest tissue paper, and wafted it out there - stayed up for a minute or more!

The moral? When you hold a paper airplane contest, print the rules on a sheet of paper - and require the airplane be made out of that sheet. And that it have a lifting surface.... :rolleyes:
 
Well, all I can say is I'm much better at flying real airplanes than this bloody thing... :mad:

EDIT: Disregard my last...

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YEAH BABY!
 
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56.44 ... and it won't last long I know :)

Bryan Wood said:
How far can you throw the paper airplane? My best so far is 9.87 meters. Trying to figure out how to get it out the window for some real distance. ;)
Edit: Out the window, loop, past buildings and onto the grass and a Lear parks next to it. 48.53 meters

http://flightsimx.archive.amnesia.com.au/

Blue Skies,
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I don't believe it did this!! I have other stuff to be doing.

But I did reach 56.44. :D
 
Out of sight...

When I was at university (many years ago... :) ...) the EEs were made to take mechanical drawing... and in the pre-CAD days (20 years before the PC...) we used this funny stuff called paper, and carbon pencils on large drafting boards...

The drafting room was on the 9th floor of a building on a hill, and in England, the windows actually opened.... :cool:

The EEs discovered that the heavy Quad Demy (quaint English size - 35 x 45 inches - no wimpy tracing paper) made great paper aeroplanes.... and launched from the 9th floor we had many 3 ft plus gliders going out of sight over the city of Liverpool, some finding good updrafts... :D

gil in Tucson - wasted youth with beer and aeroplanes...
 
I'm IN

OK, cup of coffee in hand, work sitting at my desk to be done............gotta make some play money..........throwing paper airplanes a measly 45.612. That dang chimney didn't give me the updraft I was hoping for:)
 
Had to EDIT my original post! I bested my morning long throw! From 41.045 to 102.081! Whoohoo! Yep, I'm bored at work... :rolleyes:

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must get back to work but . . .

61.673 m and it only took about 15 minutes. I guess I better keep after it since I haven't wasted enough time yet.
 
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