Thursday, July 21, 2011

Paper planes #2: The Deltry

Today I'd like to show you an amazing paper plane my friend told me about. We used an A3 sheet of paper to make one and we tried it out on the 10th floor. It managed to fly about 200-250 meters, then we lost it... I guess that's more than enough to prove that it's simply great!














Sadly, my computers skills suck badly, so I didn't know how to arrange the pictures in columns or something... Well, at least it's easily readible now :)

Oh, I forgot to mention that today there was a perfect weather for trying out paper planes since there was pretty much no wind at all. I'd say it was something about 1m/s or something. 

52 comments:

  1. Oh man oh man now that's nostalgia!! It's been years but I may just have to make one just for the hell of it.


    If it flies 250m then I have to try this bad boy!!!

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  2. Yeahhh a glider. I knew that one :) Not my favorite though

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  3. ah sweet worked like a charm

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  4. heck yeah I've never been able to make planes like this. great post, keep em coming!

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  5. What the... does it really fly? I've made two and both of them crash within 1m :-(

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  6. I love make paper air planes, they're so much fun.

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  7. Nice one, looks more sophysticated.

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  8. omg! I need to try this right now! I love paper air planes like no one!

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  9. Trying it now. Haven't done this since I was little; thanks for the inspiration!

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  10. You got it to go really far, I just tried to make one and mine only got ~10 meters. I think I made a bit of a mistake with the folding.

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  11. Nice! how about some tricks for kites?

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  12. Wow I always loved making these when I was younger.

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  13. My uncle used to make deltry style planes for me. I'd be amazed at how far they'd fly.

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  14. Those look epic, far better than the ones I used to make as a kid lol.

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  15. love the paper plane guides, keep them up!!!

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  16. Gliders are the coolest of all paper planes! Didn't know of this particular one, pretty nice!

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  17. I can't wait to try and make one of these! "] Thanks for the tips!

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  18. A3 paper air planes? i'm on it.. bookmarked this post to try it later on...

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  19. "I fly like paper, get high like planes"

    :D Very detailed blueprints haha

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  20. Wow, haha. I'll have to try it out!

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  21. i kept thinking, oh i know this one, and then at the end i was like oh no i don't, i gotta try it!

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  22. I used to make these and get in trouble all the time! Do you have a specific type of paper you like to use?

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  23. Looks sick, at least its different from the paper planes you see every day!

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  24. I wasted many years of my childhood trying to perfect paper planes - thanks for the tutorial!

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  25. Didn't work that great for me. Granted it was all crooked and stuff. I'll have to try to make one more later.

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  26. Nice build. I didn't fold one in ages!

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  27. Tried this and failed miserably haha

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  28. Here it is waaaay too hot to go outside for more than 5 minutes. But I'll try it out inside

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  29. Making now! Thanks for sharing!

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  30. building it now just to see how much distance i can get.

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  31. ive always sucked at making paper aeroplanes haha, maybe ill give this one a go sometime!

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  32. Oh yeah! I used to love making those.

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  33. I MUST TRY THESE. Seriously, these look awesome. Thanks for the info!

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  34. Definitely putting this one to the test, looks good!

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  35. Just made it right now it glides really good.

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  36. Excellent post, look forward to reading you're next update!

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  37. Nice, I have been doin origami since i was a kid, like it very much. +1 followed

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  38. IT REALLY WORKS! Until it went straight to a pond of water... Next time I'll make out of aluminum.

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  39. Definitely going to impress some friends with this badboy.

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  40. I was always getting into trouble for making paper planes in class!

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