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- John Collins, better known as "The Paper Airplane Guy," has devoted himself to designing, folding, and flying the world's finest paper airplanes.
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John is back! Check out his new video where he breaks down how these planes actually fly: ua-cam.com/video/3KqjRPV9_PY/v-deo.html
Cool
Nice!
Pog
Cool
Hey John! If you can teach how to make plane which comes back to you. Wanna gift it to my son.
This is how I imagined my adult life when I was 10 years old
same
He lied 👊😭🤜
Sbens?
I can't even stand how relatable it is.
S(he) Be(lie)ve(d)
- I spent all my life to learn about aerodynamics
- Oh are you a pilot ?
- no im folding paper planes
Luciplomb even better
- you must be poor
-nope I’m a millionaire
Pilots don't learn jack about aerodynamics, engineers do
How does this have 2.3 THOUSAND LIKES but only 3 comments
I followed this guy's steps in making a paper airplane, and it ended up being the best flown paper airplane I've ever made
i wanna do it too!!! as soon as possible am gonna fly them away
@@internetcomtr did you do it?
Even if your plane has a crappy first flight, if you keep adjusting the wings at certain angles, you might just get it to fly. Aerodynamics is fun
What a guy... optimistic, fun, smart, and willing to share
Don't forget massive nerd.
The uncle we all wish we had.
Ikr 🤣🤣
Jason and a Camera True
Not everybody
Jason and a Camera true
Literally. One uncle I never see and the other is a douche.
I could see his dedication on his tie .
Aditya Tatineni He’s the Neil Degrasse Tyson of airplanes
Aditya Tatineni You too you saw it 🤭
Omg I just saw it
Omg. I didn't even notice it
Watching this made me recall a long ago stormy summer day with very gusty winds. I threw a paper airplane up, it caught in the winds and was carried away out of the neighborhood. That was such an incredible feeling watching it fly away. Had many happy hours making and flying paper airplanes as a boy.
me too, i made one once that seemed to stay up there for what seemed like eternity..
Legend says it’s still flying to this day…
That feeling when u make the perfect paper plane.
No one said you can't fly them again :)
Polluter.
When he has the big hug with the QB thrower, and it's like Nerd + Jock together at last, brings a tear to my eye
Outstanding
And here I am, trying to build a paper plane at 1am.
I hope you've finished it
Federico Guerrini this made me lol for way too long😂
same bro same, just landed them on my neighbours roof
@@denizklc2178oof u
me too
Seeing grown men cheering for a paper airplane makes me happy
Hey bojack nice to see you happy
@@annwhite3378 nice to see you positive toward Han
@@mikami9921 nice to see you positive towards Akeisha who was positive towards Han
@@newaccount4317 nice to see you positive toward Halim who was positive toward Akeisha Hope.
bandit.T nice to See you positive towards New Account who was positive towards Halim Lahoud who was positive towards Akeisha Hope who was positive to Han
He teaches me aerodynamics in minutes better than school in years.
For real I had no idea the air going over the top pushed the back down/nose up. TURNS OUT THE WINGS DON'T HAVE BONES OR HOLLOW MUSCLES OR EVEN A CILIA-LIKE LAYER OF DOWN CROWD SURFING THE AIR TO THE BACK.
P.S. anyone else trying to use their mattress as a folding surface?
@@kendrickje If you angle the elevator down, the tail goes up and the nose drops. It's not only air going over the top, as it depends which way you angle the elevators (or ailerons, rudder, etc). If you angle the elevator down, air at the bottom of the wing will deflect down, while air over the top of the wing will "stick" to the surface for a bit due to the Coanda effect (though it soon "unsticks" once it reaches the smoother part of the control surface). Point is, the air moves downward, and due to Newton's third law of motion, this will push the control surface up, in this case the elevator, which is located at the back of the plane. Therefore, the nose points down (if the back goes up, the front goes down). It works the same way the other way (angling the elevator up), albeit reversed (air at the top is pushed up, air at the bottom sticks to the elevator due to Coanda effect, elevator [and therefore aft of the aircraft] pushed down, nose points up)
Honestly, it's a very simple concept I figured out a few years ago, back in third grade while looking at the control surfaces on a wing and observing how the aircraft responds (ailerons were what I could see, and therefore what I used to form my conclusion). That said, I didn't know what the Coanda effect was at the time, and so I simply assumed the air on the other side of the deflected control surface simply continued in the direction it was moving before.
It's called hands-on learning. Schools should try it one of these centuries.
@@kendrickje i guess
@@meganbaker9116 nah there too busy making factory workers
I'm an aero engineer and this guy's knowledge on aerodynamics really impressed me.
username checks out
This guy must have been a master at passing notes in school
Lmaooo
He really was. I was the plane
I get this joke
He really was I was the air
ZaedaxYT he really was, I was the teacher.
School teachers must love this guy
I pressed on your channel cause your were verified and I saw I was already subbed XD
They do
No u
Hi
Aayyy me have the same name
My son and I just made some world record planes watching this video, hands down the smoothest straightest paper plane I've ever made...amazing!! We played for hours with making them..
Great dad
W Dad
W dad! That kid's going to remember that for the rest of his life.
I love seeing how excited he got over setting a new record
He’s a grown man flying paper airplanes with the biggest and most genuine smile. I love this.
love you comment
You right
iandotevan epic comment 😂
Mk
imagine after conducting 99 trials and remained that facial expression :)
This guy would be any teacher's worst nightmare if he was 8
Facts
imagine if he WAS the teacher
Kimet 10 oh gosh..it wouldn’t be a school.. or it would be for being the best paper-aeroplane master.
Actually he was 8 at long time ago
Actually when I was eight my teacher told me to stop so at the end I stopped making paper airplane
This is the best thing I've seen on UA-cam in weeks. Great planes. Thank you.
"How did you become so rich?"
John: *i fold paper that flies*
teacher: John dont throw paper aeroplanes in class!
John(30 years later):
XD
you cant t spell air
@@jstudios7101 ?
UwU
David Beckingham
You can’t spell “can’t”.
Came for paper airplanes, got a lesson on aerodynamics.
Lol
Lmao 😂
Well ofc haha
Win Win In my Books 📚 😂
thats like saying "yea went to learn music production but learned music theory instead" like yea ofc, they go hand in hand.
This guy is so cool and generous to share his tricks.
My science teacher challenged us to recreate this man's plane as best as possible then we took them and threw them and whoever did best got candy
Cool
And then everyone threw their planes at the person who won
@@IceeFish ye exactly
Who won? Did you win? What design did you do?
Good deal
This guy made a career out of the reason why I dont have one.
😂
Paper planes are the reason I became a pilot.
Dude im dead lmao
@@anythingisok2666 being is pilot is my dieheart dream. Can you guide me how to become one.
I am 21 and not graduate. Is that something you must have or a course of something will do.
@@Yash-Gaikwad bro, a degree or military experience is crucial unless you have aviators in your family who will train you like my uncle did me. Crop dust family, been flying for over 3 generations..
This man spent his whole life making paper airplanes
And i thought my pencil pyramid was cool
dkjsbiavrubdhd this deserves more likes 😂
yup i feel u
😂😂😂
😂
😂😂😂😂😂 ha ha...lol
I like people that dedicate there whole life to one thing and he sure has.
This man, unbeknownst to be at the time, was my childhood spirit animal.
I met this dude at a Maker Faire convention 3 years ago, I told him I was a huge fan. He gave me an autographed book for free. What a nice guy
You need to Relax, no u need to relax
That is so awesome! He sounds great.
Yeah right....
@@stepbruh2327 Hey if you went to makefaire 2016 then you'll know what I mean
I met this guy too
I am 52 now and I remember when I was maybe 12 years old, my parents brought us to the Empire State Building in NYC and when I was at the top, I took a brochure that the building gave out and I folded it into a kind of big paper airplane and when nobody was looking I threw it off the observation deck. I saw it fly out and really far and then start flying in circles and arcs and eventually lost sight of it as it flew behind other buildings. After we came out of the building and were walking back to where my father had parked the car, I found the paper airplane, pretty much flattened out on the side walk, but it still had the folds I had put in it. I couldn't believe I had found it.
traderjoes I cried
Ford Larquaad ?? it probably did lol it’s not that crazy
It probably had stuck to your car tyre or something .
Wait a minute!? I was 13 and did the same thing,in fact I couldn't find my paper airplane :(
Jk. Awesome
sounds like a beginning of a movie
I could listen to this guy all day.
I always enjoyed making paper airplanes for my kids and myself. It's such a fun and inexpensive way to have fun together, especially on a rainy day when you're stuck indoors!
Came in wanting to know about paper airplanes. Left the video with a masters degree in physics.
lol
You just copied his techniques with your sharingan 😒
Obito mad at that too
ツShinobii aerodynamics*
Chidori Intensifies
I'm amazed that something as innocuous as a paper plane can be so fascinating. Love it.
Innocuous
innocuous
whats wrong with innocuous? are you just ignorant of the word?
z KwaaD No, people just don't use it that often, that's why it's surprising
Sailing followtheboat solid use of the word innocuous
When I was in 7th grade, I went to the science olympiad for aeronautics. The challenge for us 12-year-olds was to come up with a paper plane design that would fly the farthest. We could use any resources available to us to design the plane, but it had to be built there. This was in the early 90's and I found a couple books at the public library which had a few designs that seemed doable. We had a Funk & Wagnalls encyclopedia set but no added value to my paper plane design. I didn't have a computer or a printer so I had to memorize how to make it. This was right before the internet and cell phones. Now I understand what my parents meant when they said "Back in our day, we had to walk to school, in the snow, uphill, both ways." 😂 I wonder what the kids today will gripe about not having to their children.
Wow!!! You had to memorize an entire paper plane design that's so hard!!!! I could never amount to your skill set. you had it so hard back in your day
This is another example of how smart a human brain can be. Very interesting hobby to have.
*His first date with his future wife*
Her: So what do you do?
Him: I'm an engineer in aerodynamic propulsion technology.
he is already married isnt he?
It's a joke...
Susanne is *quaking*
It’s not propulsion but that date must be an odd experience.
When you are unemployed and someone asks:
I am a freelancer...an entrepreneur if you will
Wow, this guy would make for an awesome physics teacher.
Josh Martindale IKR where was he in my high school years
he is so much better than my aircraft lecturer for aerospace engineering
Can you teach me
+I'm Evict
Gravity does. 😂
Yeah
I think calling this guy The Paper Plane Guy is kinda an understatement. Dude’s a walking aerodynamics encyclopedia
I had a book back in the 80's on how to fold a bunch of different airplane glider styles, including a tubular one. I recently found an old 80's Kline-Fogleman book that uses their wing type. I also got a book that gives you a different glider style for each day of the week to fold. Fun, for awhile.
This guy is great, you can tell he loves what he’s talking about
Yeah, it's like me talking about smoking weed!
TacosAreTasty absolute no correlation to anything said
DrakeSweet Begone
I like his tie.
Niamh-Creates lmao
Niamh-Creates i betcha he folds it perfectly
same
I dunno...it seems kinda plane
all the stuff he talk and you only like tie, smh.
I could listen to him talking all day long. Very cool and smart guy!!👍👍
i’ve learned more about aerodynamics here than in 5 hours of plane videos. It gives me so much joy to learn about the world in a simple way. Thanks, Plane king :D
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9 minutes passed when I realized there are paper airplanes on his tie
Ikr
Lol....good eye, didn't notice that at all!
@@raccoonchronicles5134 It took me about 6:30 second. I was like "niiiice, i wonder who else took a while to see it"
Seth McClain OMG lOl exactly the same time
Crazy! When I realized that I saw your comment.
This is actually really interesting. I like this guy!
ma man
beefknuckles I met him
Ettore Fagioli that's really cool
ur ugly
drew rentz What?
1:33 legends say it is still flying
Watching this on 12/31. Must say that it's one of the most interesting videos I watched in YT in the last years. It surely made it to the top in my 2021 list.
This man did origami for ten years just to improve his paper airplane making.
ikr
KhOrganization
You got man, you got me...
It pays out to follow ur passions
plugboi johnny I have mad respect for him and his dedication
Dedication
I'm a pilot and there's tonnes of useful information relevant to aircraft in this video as well, he explains dihedral angle and stability ridiculously well and I love the way he explains positive stall characteristics with the centre of gravity and centre of pressure!
I wanna be a pilot when I grow up
Cool story bro
When paper plane got too hard to understand...
Fake Sevenoh they think pilots can't use the internet, don't bother them
Nothing is more beautiful than watch a human being explainin something he have passion for.
A master class in paper airplane pilotry. I love WIRED!!!
Now that man is living life to the fullest.
i like your profile picture.
Doing what he loves, most people dont get that opportunity, a simple man who is happy, cant fault him
Nice profile picture
@@TEcHnOMuSiCMiXe 😂😂😂😂 you are awesome
Let’s face it no one actually searched for this video but we’ve all watched it 😂😂
Recommended...
Yes
Recommened
Honestly
my brain recommended writing this reply for no reason 😂
Really cool guy. Using real world science for his paper airplanes. Just awesome !
i am 57 and i have made his long distance design since childhood (very early 70s).. even added proportional weights to have it fly longer and with more control.... CLASSIC design.. i would also manipulate the back to make it circle around back to me perfectly. no matter how hard i would throw it, it would circle around that much quicker like a boomerang.. even with this design, i would really curl the back edges, throw it hard, and it would go up and flip a 360 and then continue.. need stiff paper to find the right balance for strength if you are to throw it hard...
This man just broke down the science of paper airplanes in the most basic, interesting, entertaining way possible. Incredible.
Today...first time in my life... i have seen a professional paper airplane maker....
Hats off to u sir.....👍👍👍👍👍
Juganta Saikia I don't wanna burst your bubble, but he did not invent any of these airplanes
skirtis mcgurtis
just think of the designs he is creating....They are far beyond you and me
skirtis mcgurtis he did invent the designs of the plane!
You mean propellers off
Singh Anmol preet no, multiple records were set by other people. The nakumara lock, he took credit for. The one with the cardboard and the plane shapes, yeah, he didn't create those. I could go on and on.
THANK YOU for explaining glider aerodynamics. It has been a mystery for R/C glider pilots for a long time!
Fantastic stuff! Wish I'd known this guy back in high school when we'd have paper airplane competitions. The airplane he shows how to make at 3:00 is harder than it looks.
Fun fact: my friend made 10 of them
His passion for paper airplanes is fascinating.
I hope his wisdom will help the *billions of school kids* to build better paper toys !
epSos.de there aren't billions of school kids in the world... smh
Satan New kids are born every day u know
Not all of them are schoolkids though..
They'll become.
epSos.de how u add bold letters
Thank God this guy was not in the paper plane competition in the office.
I love the office
Zoro There’s always the one guy that shares a fact about his life...
Watcher_9k 5021 there’s always that one guy who has to ruin everyone’s mood cause they have mental problems themselves
Zoro Might I ask what strain you’re smoking?
Zoro I also must add I find it interesting I’m ruining everyone’s mood when it would only be yours that I’d ruin. I understand you’re self centered just a tad and that’s alright.
I never imagined that one could build a professional career out of folding paper...this video is dope!
I could listen to this guy for hours. He makes it all sound simple.
I think its extremely cool that he's showing how to fold his record winner. Very unselfish.
You get an award for that too, John.🏆
Jolly cooperation at its best.
Selfless not unselfish
@@21istheone55 unselfish is a word 😏
Way to be John 🎉💪👏
Lies again? Alaska Paper Plane
When he called the paper "this guy" i felt the charisma and energy of Bob Ross
Omg its wholesome
He kinda feels like Bob Ross overall
I'm the 666 like
@@thadiamond1667 who is Bob Ross ??
@@sarthaks5 OMG Bob Ross is the god of wholesome men search him up he dead now fyi 😭
So dedicated to his craft, even his hair looks like wings...
Searched too long for this comment!
They say when he runs fast enough, he generates lift
I love his passion for the subject.
"Perfectly balanced"
*narrows my eyes suspiciously*
*aS All tHinGs sHouLd bE*
As all things should be 😂😂😂
Jotaro Kujo *breathes in* as all things should be
Ha! People still remember me.
@@Handsome_Thanos *tHanOs*
6.3k dislikes are school teachers.. They won't encourage me to fly paper gliders..
Seriously - who dislikes this video? Who? And why?
One My Friend Hit Paper Plane To our Principal Face but It was Not the good Idea
Haha
Lol wtf and what happened to him
6.4K dislikes...
Something that’s simple and oblivious that’s wildly intriguing and credible
If you didn’t try to make the world record paper airplane by the end of this video...
Y o u h a v e f a i l e d
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What an awesome grandpa he would be !!!
Yup! Yup!
Haha
Desired Lotus lol I agree I mean who doesn’t want a grandpa who holds a world record
Passion can make anything interesting
Mr Eighty Well said. I definitely didn't think I'd be this invested in a video about paper airplanes...
That is the truest thing I have read
Mr Eighty passion with patience.... we young man are lack of patience... the old generation are the best
I love this guy he is so wholesome!
This is actually so fascinating
He has a cool personality and teaching style, I wouldn't mind a series of paper airplane tutorials with him.
Stay tuned, Mariomario24135! Thanks for watching and commenting
Can't wait!
He does, I think his channel is called ThePaperAirplaneGuy
His ability to teach is beyond remarkable.. I haven't paid this much attention to a teacher since the 3rd grade on the 2nd day
That's because he has passion for what he does whereas teachers in school are mostly dead on the inside
@@s0bad lol
@@kiyoponnn well, that's true but most of them...
This is what schools should be for children. He's a great teacher who keeps your attention while teaching you valuable things.
Amazing. Enjoy every bit of this
Everyone’s greatest fear
Girls: Spiders
Boys: Getting Rejected
John: Running outa paper
Ends no no no no no,
Everyone: no WiFi
While I dont love you like the other guy over there (no offense we never met), the joke was funny.
Like 69
Paper spiders that make you get rejected
Running outta paper is an artist's greatest fear too lmao
10 yo me would be so famous at school if i knew this guy back then...
kido hop but you were a geek.
More like 5 year old me. I actually taught my class origami at the behest of our teacher in like 3rd grade. Wish I had stuck with it
kido hop i was that guy now i have an unwritten world record
I liked and it turned 1k likes
Im 14 and we always make paper airplanes in my class! Yayyaya
love the tie!
This man is one of the happiest ive ever seen
he looks exactly how i pictured a "world record paper plane folder" would be
Really? I imagined an Asian
@@neonsplit2941 haha ikr
I imagined George Bush
Krappy Patty HAHAHAHAH
River PB 😂😂😂😂😂😂
When he beat the record he was sooo happy that how everyone should react when they beat their obstacle its amazing.
We used to fly paper airplanes and write love letters to our crushes in school,one time mine landed on my teacher's table .
oh no
I promise you he is the BEST teacher I have EVER seen.
I needed this video about 30 years ago.
Bro Cooking With Jay it’s never too late
Neymarr _ but I’d end friends that actually care about that stuff. They all grew up.
you should have read a book like he did... the designs are probably at least that old. this idiot is a scam.
king james488 he set the world record. I doubt that he didn’t invent that design
king james488 yeah when I was a kid we didn’t have the internet but I def couldn’t have gone to the library. But that wasn’t really my think back then.
I just spent 15 mins making the first plane "Susan", and the next hour revisiting my childhood. A rare experience offered for so many, using so little material. Such a nice place to be again. Thank you John Collins.
Martin UberTuber I spent 15 minutes and I on my first throw it went into my neighbor’s backyard.
Wow.. beautiful.. thanks for spending time thinking about this..
I literally just ordered your book for my kids and me. Thank you for putting it all together. I loved paper airplanes when I was a kid but never knew how to build any really good ones. I think my kids will develop some great memories with this book.
that's a very smart man devoted to one specific task. no wonder he broke a record.
I LOVE this John guy! A middle aged brainy kid at heart!!!
A paper that make Transportation Change.
Amazing 🙌🙌🙌👍👍👍
okay but can we talk about this guy’s tie?!
[кив]Nugget The tie has paper airplanes lol
Bahar Sabet i heard he can fold his tie so it will be able to fly
Veni Vedi that’s just something else entirely
What about it?
It's look cool on him because u know he is pro of airplane paper 🤓
You always have to find a negative about everything huh?
it took me a while to recognize his tie
Cptn. McSuperAwesome OH. MY GOD
I realized when reading this comment
Truly amazing!
This guy is GENIUS