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============================================<br></div><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">From: </span><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" class="gI"><span class="gD" style="color: rgb(121, 6, 25);">Sandy Fleming</span> <span class="go"><<a href="mailto:sandy@fleimin.demon.co.uk">sandy@fleimin.demon.co.uk</a>></span></span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
<span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Subject: </span><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" class="gI">LL-L "Games" 2009.12.28 (04) [EN]<br><br></span><div style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" class="im">
> From: Tom Mc Rae <<a href="mailto:thomas.mcrae@bigpond.com">thomas.mcrae@bigpond.com</a>><br>
> Subject: LL-L Childrens' Games<br>
><br>
> > Paper airplanes in space!<br>
> > -------<br>
> > To see this story with its related links on the <a href="http://guardian.co.uk/" target="_blank">guardian.co.uk</a> site,<br>
> > go<br>
> > to <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/dec/27/paper-plane-flight-record-japan" target="_blank">http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/dec/27/paper-plane-flight-record-japan</a><br>
> > Paper plane enthusiast sets flight record<br>
> > Takuo Toda targets 30-second barrier after hand-folded paper-only<br>
> > plane stays in air for 26.1 seconds in Japan<br>
><br>
><br>
> This is a VERY ambitious claim ! Let me assure you that Scottish<br>
> schoolboys were making origami type paper aircraft from at least the<br>
> 1930's.<br>
> While we never timed them, few wrist watches in the 1940's I am<br>
> certain that some of our Masters creations had excellent flight<br>
> durations in excess<br>
> of this claimed world record. If caught in a small thermal those craft<br>
> just kept rising.<br>
<br>
</div><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Tom,</span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
<br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
I made these planes too, but I wouldn't call them proper origami planes</span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
as the two sheets of paper were different sizes and you did need to tear</span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
the nose down the middle to ensure that the tail stayed in.</span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
<br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
I doubt if the use of thermals is allowed in the world record! Thirty</span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
seconds is a very long time indeed for a paper aeroplane to stay</span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
airborne.</span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
<br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
I've made various other styles of plane, and the one that stays up</span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
longest is one designed with the paper rolled and flattened to make the</span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
leading edge of the wing much thicker than the rest of the wing. This is</span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
nearer to origami but tends to need a paper clip or something to weight</span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
it. It does, however, fly very flat and shallow, so it can go long</span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
distances before reaching the ground, and any unsatisfactory aspects to</span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
the flying can be ironed out by curving the rear of the wings to make it</span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
fly straighter if it's veering to the side, and also make it fly</span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
shallower so that it goes further.</span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
<br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
That sort of plane is what I'd think of as suitable for a world record:</span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
you don't really throw it, you just set it moving gently and leave it to</span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
do its own flying. The Scottish, and judging from the chap's throwing</span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
technique in the photo in the article, also the Japanese planes are</span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
rather crude and the time aloft would seem to depend on the thrower's</span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
strength as much as the design of the plane.</span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
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Sandy Fleming<br>
<a href="http://scotstext.org/" target="_blank">http://scotstext.org/</a><br>
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