John Collins, origami enthusiast and paper airplane savant, walks us through all the science behind five spectacular paper airplanes. Most people know how to fold a simple plane, but paper airplanes can take as much from science as the newest car designs.
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LV
31.03.2022His hairline is the shape of a bird. This man truly loves flight.
Abhiram Mohan
31.03.2022Thats more than i think . But in a papper plane gravity. Thats was nice . This thing teach me some physics 😉. I subscribe
Gvnady
31.03.2022I wish I got a science teacher this cool back then
Gary Castillo
31.03.2022PAPER AIR PLAINE 🛩🛩🛩🛩🛩🛩🛩
ImmA
31.03.2022It’s fitting that his hair looks like a paper airplane
Fredy Diaz
31.03.2022Spent my whole childhood making paper planes and they did fly but never thought of aerodynamics. We used to go up to hill and see them fly. Some did really well others just fell few meters away. This last year I wanted to remember my child times and went up to a hill and made one trying to do it more carefully and the result was amazing. It flew for more than 2kms.
TheXangelus
31.03.2022We got taught the suzanne at school by our teacher at 10 years old. I always thought that was the way everyone folded a paper plane.
southerner
31.03.2022Collins’ book is great. My 8 year old son got it for Christmas last year. We’ve had hours of fun together with it. Highly recommend.
foren
31.03.20220:51
Glory of rats
31.03.2022Wow I make paper crafts and I didn’t even know about this
《Asyraf~》
26.03.2022It's good to learn
Aaron Albrecht
26.03.2022I didn't know that the second best player on the Hawks was a paper airplane master
St-roch guy
26.03.2022Too high an angle of attack *
Joe El-Shazly
26.03.2022Dang !! Wish he was my physics professor
Gabriela Ross
26.03.2022Coollll
Draden Dennis
26.03.202211:05 YOU SAID IT WAS STALL RESISTANT
huy nguyen
26.03.2022That is some thinking to the airplane design
Zoe Zhu
26.03.2022If all the forces were balanced then the plane would not move and literally just float in the air
Anchit Lukhurakhan
26.03.2022can anyone tell me that lift is generated due the coanda effect or the bernoulli's principle because , many of the videos state that its bernoulli's principle that generates lift.
Origuy
26.03.2022https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QHZEC4xKAVk
Sagebrush Aviation
25.03.2022I have been teaching people to fly for over a decade and thought I had a good way to explain the magic of lift. This is the first time I have heard the term "coanda effect" but it makes so much sense. Never stop learning. Thanks for the great video.
nas84payne
25.03.20228:20 Shots fired at Red Bull 😄
Rock n Roll
25.03.2022NAKAMURA Lock is better
karampreet singh
25.03.2022Grade 11 NCERT books still say bernoulis principle causes lift. @cbse
jyzw
25.03.2022bruh at 12:11 i wasnt listening for a second and thought he broke the laws of physics
Babli Singh
25.03.2022Hi
wasif farooq
25.03.2022this video was great and i didnt make that super canard and tube
Happy Ycwong
25.03.202214:41 wow
Justin J
25.03.2022Dispelled the Bernoulli fallacy once again. Maybe with another 100 years of this information we can finally defeat the FAAs misinformation. (They stubbornly keep teaching Pilots Bernoulli, in spite of the fact that it's been considered inaccurate since before there was an FAA). Their own pilots flying handbook explains the curved upper surface is responsible for the low pressure area above the wing and for lift. The very next page they state that symmetrical airfoils also generate lift. But they give zero explanation of why this is true. And they also have zero answer as the why airplanes can fly upside down just fine. Comical.
Bhavneeth Coding Lab
25.03.2022wing loading joke = me starting the part again
Soviet mapping
23.03.2022Thanks dude
Jad Alamayreh
23.03.2022This guy made me make my own paper airplane
Lokesh
23.03.2022Thanks.
Pardeep Sharma
23.03.2022Wahoooooo
Li Yiqiong (Cchms)
23.03.2022Wow
Anush Sinha
23.03.2022great
Lavishpuppy 7512
23.03.2022Bro I’ve met him in real life he’s pretty cool
Kayne dickinson
23.03.2022i feel so smart after watching this
Denise Lynn
23.03.2022I like the way he folds his hair!
Wetinswet
23.03.2022when you realise that a jet plane has bigger wings than a butterfly
art n craft kidz
22.03.2022hi
Adi Malik
22.03.2022POV: You are most probably watching it for Red bull competition.
Amit Kumar Naik
22.03.2022Can it be a money earning profession. After all money is also paper..
giomar89
22.03.2022Why is nobody talking about his tie?
Harvey Ho
22.03.2022Wow great physics.
manoman0
22.03.2022It's just a paper plane!!
Blue army
22.03.2022School
Yanika Gunawan
22.03.2022Its too fast
Atlas Topçu
22.03.2022420
WIRED
22.03.2022Hey everyone, would you like to see in-depth tutorials showing how to make the paper airplanes in this video? What's your favorite paper airplane design featured here? Reply to this comment and let us know. We'd love to hear what you have to say.