Subject: RE: Paper Airplane design
Date: Thu, 13 Aug 1998
From: "Brison, William W" [email protected]
To: "'Ken Blackburn'" [email protected]
The design is like this:
Square sheet of paper
.-------------------------.
|.      .    |           .|
|  .      .  |         .  |
|    .      .|       .    |
|      .           .     .|
|        .       .     .  |
|          .   .     .    |
|-----       .       -----|
|   .      .   .          |
| .      .       .        |
|      .           .      |
|    .       |.      .    |
|  .         |  .      .  |
|.           |    .      .|
`-------------------------'
Straight lines are cuts.  Dotted lines are folds up (to make
"valleys").
It's really four small paper airplanes connected in a circle
so they chase each other around.
I came up with this about two years ago and I'm doing
this from memory.
This particular one doesn't really spin much on the way
down.  I don't know why.  But it does do the little dance on
the floor at the bottom.  Experiment a little.
It descends about 3 feet/second, that varies with how
sharply the folds are creased.