Counting down time until the next train? Make paper airplanes and launch it in flight! Is it littering? I don’t think so, it’s a paper airplane! Who doesn’t like finding a paper airplane on the ground? Plus, if you found a paper airplane on the ground, wouldn’t you pick it up and throw it? Paper airplanes are fun. You can’t deny it.
The paper airplane pictured in this blog post was the second airplane I made while waiting for the brown line train at the Chicago stop. It’s a historic airplane. I made it with the same notepaper when I wrote about purpose.
The sky’s the limit with paper airplanes.
1) Use different types of paper.
Revive paper that you were going to recycle. Scraps of paper, receipts, envelopes from bills. Just wing it, any paper has the potential to take off. Get fancy and make some custom print outs with colors and stuff.
2) Different styles of planes.
The classic dart. The floater. My favorite from 4th grade, the bat (pictured above).
3) Different messages you can include on the airplane.
Say something fun and light. Say something deep to be aware of the gravity of the situation. Say something fun (yes, i’m repeating fun again). Say nothing. Say anything.
The possibilities are astronomical. My brain is spinning and orbiting around with eeexcitement! With paper airplanes, things are always looking up. Let me know in the comments if you make any paper airplanes.
At my old job it wasn’t uncommon for everyone, somehow, to secretly make their own paper airplanes and launch them at each other. We had the same mystic connection when it came to launching jumbo rubberbands. I work in a considerably less-fun and significantly more conservative office now so nothing like that has happened in quite a while
Looks like I was bending time on the world wide web again 😉
tom, are you speaking of the tms job? or elsewhere? As you know, I like to throw paper airplanes at work. But I also like to throw crumbled-up paper and pretend they are snowballs. Oh and then there is the rubber-band shooter gun. haha. As far as bending time, yeah, I write posts ahead of time and then schedule them out so they appear one every weekday. But if I do a flickr image in the post, then people can have super duper cool preview access to the post before it hits the homepage!
I am a big fan of the classic dart! I make good ones … watch … see it fly! … seeeeee? oh there it goes!
I made a couple bats from printouts of tulips. I threw them off the Randolph brown line station, and they immediately sunk to the ground. +needs to figure out the air patterns at that station+
I posted some tulip airplanes at http://www.flickr.com/photos/spudart/5726334806
This is a great site. Just happened upon it looking for salutation examples. I think I will make paper airplanes with my grandbaby this weekend !!
Thanks Robin! I’d love to see any of the paper airplanes you make. If you are able to take photos and share, that would be fantastic.
i want to see the crumbled-up paper airplane. part crumbled paper, part airplane.
The half-crumbled/half-airplane paper airplane wouldn’t fly very well. UNLESS if you were Frank Gehry and you used your fancy architecture software to computer generate a wacky shaped paper airplane that would be able to fly.