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Comment: Does this video include the step you were wondering about? http://www.youtube.com/watch…
Comment: Did anyone mention the wikipedia article on the subject? It has your record in it too:h…
Comment: Enjoyed this instructable. I also get alot of people who don't believe my instructables…
Comment: Yes, this design can be modified to fly as a walkalong glider:http://www.instructables.…
Comment: There are several design considerations to get a glider to fly properly in the limited …
Comment: There is a jumbo design with videos of flights: https://sites.google.com/site/controlla…
Comment: The cardboard sheet pushes the air, creating a smooth updraft.
Comment: In theory, a car does produce lift above it. More aerodynamic models have less lift as …
Comment: Yes, but bear in mind that as the mass per unit area of the paper goes up (tissue paper…
Comment: Your point is well taken. The tsunami basin at The O.H. Hinsdale Wave Research Laborato…
Comment: I'm sure the order of magnitude could be easily obtained. But trying to design building…
Comment: There is just such a facility at Oregon State University where they asses building code…
Comment: With the pattern given, there should be enough sheet material for two gliders in the cu…
Comment: I'm sure your design would hold up much better than this prototype. The science museum …
Comment: This is the function of a wind tunnel. Wind tunnels have vanes to smooth the turbulence…
Comment: telekenesis or not the attention required to fly using hands or head means no attention…
Comment: There is a video showing both side and helmet cam views:
Comment: That's a really good idea. An intro video, like the following one: and with tutorials f…
Comment: This is a great question. If the plane is constructed from the lightest paper, waxed ti…
Comment: Very good question. The piece of cardboard is used as a controllable slope and makes wi…
Comment: Glad you liked the concept. There are lighter foams available so this design is a compr…
Comment: This is the first attempt at a steerable paper airplane. The Indoor Paper Airplane Walk…
Comment: The size of the cardboard can be likened to the power of the aircraft engine, the large…
Comment: You may be able to glue the wings together with fingernail polish. Glue the forward win…
Comment: The cardboard used here used to contain a bicycle wheel. Larger area cardboard sheets a…
Comment: this design has been improved upon in the indoor paper airplane instructable. If you st…
Comment: I would recommend trying to fly the tumblewing to get used to flying walkalong gliders…
Comment: Today I made an indoor paper airplane from a waxy tissue wrapping paper which came with…
Comment: I tend toward larger butterflies and moths, but I don't see why smaller ones wouldn't w…
Comment: Wow. I do not remove any parts of the butterfly. Any missing parts probably fell off du…
Comment: There was one flight (not in the instructable, to my knowledge) on youtube where I over…
Comment: The indoor paper airplane walkalong glider is meant to be easy to construct. It does no…
Comment: There is a larger walkalong glider which carries an 18 gram ballast up front. The balla…
Comment: Here's the best flight so far:
Comment: Yes, you're right, lowering the mass with a lighter paper would slow things down. I hav…
Comment: My hunch is that the tumblewing got caught in a thermal of some sort, HVAC if indoors, …
Comment: How do you use this kite as a glider? Could you post a video of it flying?
Comment: The only TED video I know of is of the father of Tyler McCready, the late Dr Paul McCre…
Comment: People are impressed with walkalong gliders but doubly so when they are flown with the …
Comment: I've been using this setup for all my walkalong glider videos.
Comment: The nose up trim was a compromise between the oscillations and the glider getting away …
Comment: Glad you like it!
Comment: Oppps... guess I'm a year late... Chucks!
Comment: So the rules state that the paper airplane must be "human-propelled" and that includes …
Comment: I found it easier to photograph parts of the sky and then annotate the photos, revealin…
Comment: "...pay no attention to the man behind the curtain..."
Comment: I found the size of the fire needs to match the diameter of the chimney and that a jar …
Comment: Hi Killerjackalope, Thanks for the comments. I was able to embed the youtube video but …
Comment: I've tried paragliding and found that pretty sluggish getting around the skies. I can't…
Comment: I just use $10 34 gallon trash barrels from Home Depot and siphon the water out with a …
Comment: The board is in motion following the glider. The board pushes air around it, with some …
Comment: I have made a new video where the wings have been remolded and the up elevator increase…
Comment: My pleasure. I have to thank a student at a college in Wisconsin for bringing this desi…
Comment: This project is probably my next step. Drawing water like our forfathers did was, and s…
Comment: Glad you are happy. I just tried a paper airplane glider successfully; however, it happ…
Comment: Thanks Lemonie,http://www.geocities.com/x_surfer2004/tumblewing.htmlappears to be a dif…
Comment: Stay tuned next time... The next instructable has got to be on how to fly. My only stum…
Comment: This guy presents serious competition:
Comment: The tumblewing flies much slower than the jumbo walkalong, especially if made from phon…
Comment: Yeah, I know. But I did manage to get a link on the walkalong glider supreme commander'…
Comment: Flying taxidermy? I've had some success trimming butterflies which have died to fly. TH…