Paper Airplane Designs

Imagine my surprise when I'm reading down the HN list like I do every day and I stumble upon my own website. Thats a pretty cool feeling! Im happy to answer any questions people may have. This was my Angular learning project back when Angular just came out. I think Angular ended up being the wrong choice for this project, but it works and I learned Angular, so its all good.

My interest in science started when a friend and I folded a few paper planes, tested them over a small downhill section outside my house, made notes about what worked, tweaked and experimented with new designs, and so on. It blew my little mind that with structured experimentation you could design things that actually got better with each generation. Where would the improvements stop? With hindsight, I realise that most of the improvements we measured were really just statistical noise…

Seeing some of these designs brought back memories. My best friend growing up had this huge vaulted-ceiling living room with a balcony above it. Perfect for conducting test flights of different paper airplane designs. I had a book of paper airplane models we used and improvised from to try for the longest flight time. He had a mom who worked for the phone company, and brought home reams of green bar paper reports. [0] Those pages were larger than typical…

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