{"id":136340,"date":"2022-03-03T05:35:22","date_gmt":"2022-03-03T13:35:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/03\/for-new-insights-into-aerodynamics-scientists-turn-to-paper-airplanes"},"modified":"2022-03-03T05:35:22","modified_gmt":"2022-03-03T13:35:22","slug":"for-new-insights-into-aerodynamics-scientists-turn-to-paper-airplanes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/03\/for-new-insights-into-aerodynamics-scientists-turn-to-paper-airplanes","title":{"rendered":"For new insights into aerodynamics, scientists turn to paper airplanes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/for-new-insights-into-aerodynamics-scientists-turn-to-paper-airplanes2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A series of experiments using paper airplanes reveals new aerodynamic effects, a team of scientists has discovered. Its findings enhance our understanding of flight stability and could inspire new types of flying robots and small drones.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe study started with simple curiosity about what makes a good <a href=\"https:\/\/techxplore.com\/tags\/paper\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">paper<\/a> airplane and specifically what is needed for smooth gliding,\u201d explains Leif Ristroph, an associate professor at New York University\u2019s Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences and an author of the study, which appears in the <i>Journal of Fluid Mechanics<\/i>. \u201cAnswering such basic questions ended up being far from child\u2019s play. We discovered that the aerodynamics of how paper airplanes keep level flight is really very different from the stability of conventional airplanes.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBirds glide and soar in an effortless way, and paper airplanes, when tuned properly, can also glide for long distances,\u201d adds author Jane Wang, a professor of engineering and physics at Cornell University. \u201cSurprisingly, there has been no good mathematical model for predicting this seemingly simple but subtle gliding flight.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A series of experiments using paper airplanes reveals new aerodynamic effects, a team of scientists has discovered. Its findings enhance our understanding of flight stability and could inspire new types of flying robots and small drones. \u201cThe study started with simple curiosity about what makes a good paper airplane and specifically what is needed for [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":650,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1488,2229,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-136340","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-drones","category-mathematics","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136340","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/650"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=136340"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136340\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=136340"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=136340"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=136340"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}