One of my biggest claims to fame has always been that I stumbled on a paper airplane design that works extremely well, but was super easy to make. I have bragged abou it for years, i would amaze the kids in my grade. I've actually been thinking lately I should try to publicize it.

I saw this link, and scrolled down. What fools. These inferior planes have nothing on my design.

Turns out I'm looking at the very last design on the page and I'll be damned, there it is.

It's called "the raven" apparently, though I always thought it looked more like a shark. If you pull the mouth out a little and put eyes on it, it's great, and it flies very far.

In a way, I feel a bit glad and vindicated my secrets are already out there... and also, it's a pretty obvious design.

What a trip.

Dart plane good for distance, also potential to cause blindness.

Maybe you can submit designs there

I think these should still be around. Though maybe old stock.

I do remember those, some of them even had rubberband propellers.

This is fantastic! My daughter loves paper airplanes and I only knew how to make like 3 of these. She's gonna be stoked tomorrow morning.

It's unique and unusual yet works surprisingly well.

I work at a middle school, my kids will love this! Ty!

Wow thanks for sharing!

This is going in my saved posts, so that I will find it a year from now. My son will be 6 and we’ll have a great time with it.

I once won a trivia bonus task of throwing a paper plane the furthest. Basically made a dart and launched that sucker across the pub lmao

Just another cool paper airplane.

Same here! I’m watching Bobs Burgers right now lol

Haha yeah, though I've never heard that name before lol

Personally I prefer the definitive guide by Barry B. Foldin’, The Wings Beneath My Wings

Yes. It's called Google Scholar and then reading the paper.

You talkin' about that Pope's Hat? I noticed the oversight as well.

I was just starting to put together a course for 5th graders on directive speech. You are my hero rn. Thank you!

Did you find it?

the power adapter tends to melt around the pins, I'm not kidding go check it now if you're using it

Making paper airplanes can keep children occupied for hours and teaches them so many things. Physics, design, engineering, problem solutions. The list goes on. It's also a very inexpensive way to introduce these concepts. My children loved it.

My parents used to get us those, they usually ended up on a roof or exploding into the hood of a truck

Santa brought a few of them for my kids last year. Crazy what happens in his workshop.

I also happened to see something similar at my ace hardware store where they sold old timey gifts.

I feel really bad for OP... They really fumbled the headline on this one and it's inciting a lot of strong reactions.

Look at their post history. A year ago they were talking up this cool tool:

"A smart citation index that displays the context of citations and classifies their intent using deep learning"

"We extracted 900M citation statements from 26M full-text scientific articles. You can now search all of them directly"

And they've gotten relatively little traction on it. A few upvotes, a comment here or there...

But then they get cocky with this headline, implying that any user could effectively use this tool, and that the tool would wildly overdeliver.

I'm not a scientist. Not even an armchair one. And to be honest, I don't know much about research papers and how they cite each other.

But I can see the value of "Search for something, find related papers, and see who's citing who and a good guess at whether they've been supported or contrasted by the citation.

... I also see they're using paywalls, though... so it's not like they're giving this away.

But try and see it's merits, even if it can't even hope to live up to the headline it's been presented with.

Yeah, those were balsa wood gliders and prop planes.