Ask Slashdot: The Very Best Paper Airplane? 183
An anonymous reader writes "'The Harrier' (or 'Eastern star,' as it is also called), is very well known, and is considered to be one of the best paper airplane designs. After much searching and trying, I have not found a better plane. So, I am asking Slashdot: is there anything that beats 'The Harrier' in a competition (indoors or outdoors)? This would be a really nice geek skill!"
Outdated (Score:5, Funny)
The harrier is 1980s technology. Try a F35-B joint strike fighter STOVL variant. Folding instructions are a bit behind schedule and over budget still.
Take environment conditions into account (Score:5, Funny)
Re:I made a Saturn V once (Score:4, Funny)
She initiated deflagration to which he exploded in premature ignition!!!
Magic trick (Score:5, Funny)
Just use a sheet, draw a treasure map on it, and let it fly.
In a lot of movies, a simple sheet of paper is able to fly long distances, even when there is no wind, as long as it contains something important for the hero.
Re:Outdated (Score:5, Funny)
The F35-B only uses one sheet of paper, and we have to have two sheets to fly properly in Canada's arctic weather.
Re:Ask the mythbusters (Score:5, Funny)
Yes. They will test out which paper plane travels the furthest by considering a number of different launch techniques, one of which will inevitable be being propelled by the force of an explosion.
Re:Take environment conditions into account (Score:5, Funny)
My school did the same thing at a physics competition. They gave us paperclips duct tape and paper to make a device that would travel the furthest through the air after being launched by hand. They never said "paper airplane" but that's what they had in mind. We put a bunch of paperclips in a paperball and taped it together, and one of the kids on our team was a pitcher for the school's baseball team so he just chucked it down the hallway. It hit the backwall and we won our school an award for it.
Re:FIRST (Score:5, Funny)
I recommend the learn the grammar.
Re:Outdated (Score:2, Funny)
And I thought our government was three sheets to the wind when they decided to buy the damn things.
Re:Take environment conditions into account (Score:4, Funny)