Interactive Design and Optimization of Free-formed Free-flight Model Airplanes

These are more accurately described, I think, as paper darts - the lack of camber in particular, makes this more of a dart design tool. But! Its a step closer to having a real airplane design tool .. if they can layer the wings and produce camber using the same simple cutout techniques, then we have something even more useful for the budding junior pilots of tomorrow to use to learn how things fly.

(Disclaimer: I'm working on an airplane printer. You turn a handle, feed in raw materials, and get a flying product at the other end of the box. I'm focusing on Kline-Fogelmann wing style, since its a very easy and workable camber technique .. hope to have something to report to HN about the project soon..)

A very interesting paper [0]. I'm actually taking a similar approach (though, more generic in nature) for my CFD work (namely, using experimental data to help correct my numerically obtained answers for the same craft). After that, we take very different approaches in our work.

[0]: http://www-ui.is.s.u-tokyo.ac.jp/~ume/publication/2014_siggr...

This is the coolest thing I've seen all day. Every kid should get the chance to play with this software in school and build their designs

Have they released the actual software? I'm learning making amateur planes and can't wait to use this.

Does anyone feel the female narrating voice is artificially-generated from a script?

I want this in the next mobile game I play.

Is the app available?