ATOT Engineering Challenge - WEEK 4

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YOyoYOhowsDAjello

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Who should win the week 4 engineering challenge?
(Rules are next, entries are below)

Rules for this week:

YOyoYOhowsDAjello said:
Week 4 Engineering Category - "best" flying machine (Presented by YOyoYOhowsDAjello)

Materials:
One 8.5" x 11" piece of paper (I'm not specifying paper weight... use what you want)
Two #1 smooth paper clips (optional) (I'm hoping this is a standard type... if not, just use some that are about 1.25" long)

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Goal:
Built the "best" flying machine out of those materials.
Due to the difficulty in providing a standard way of measuring performance, I'm leaving this intentionally vague in the hopes that ATOT's creative minds will come up with compelling arguments as to why their machine has the "best" performance.
Does it have an impressive flight time? Does it fly very far? Does it spiral well? You come up with the criteria. Maybe in a subsequent challenge we can pick a particular standard measure.

Rules:
Your flying machine can consist of only the materials above (a single sheet of 8.5" x 11" paper, two #1 smooth paper clips).
You may cut / split / modify those materials, but the final machine can only consist of those original materials.
You do not need to use the full piece of paper, or any paperclips.
You may "launch" your flying machine with the method of your choice. It does not need to be a hand launch.

To submit:
You must provide a VIDEO of a complete flight of your flying machine from launch to landing.
You must provide AT LEAST 3 PICTURES of your flying machine from different angles so we can observe its construction.
You must provide a Written or Video explanation of your design and an argument for why it is the "best" flying machine.

How will a winner be determined?
If there are 10 or less participants, I will make a new thread where we can vote on the winner with a vbulletin poll. If there are more than 10 participants, the new thread will not include a poll, and voters will just vote by "write-in" for the submitters.
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This week's entries:

Entry 1
Entry 2
Entry 3

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Make sure you vote in both threads. Week 4 Creative Challenge
 
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vshah

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aww crap, i didn't see this. would totally have made my uber sweet twin engined attack fighter that i can sometimes make well enough to fly
 
YOyoYOhowsDAjello

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vshah said:
aww crap, i didn't see this. would totally have made my uber sweet twin engined attack fighter that i can sometimes make well enough to fly
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Well it was up for about two weeks :p

Do you have any suggestions for next week's challenge?
 
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YOyoYOhowsDAjello

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vshah said:
when is voting over? winner decides the next challenge right?
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3 hours left.

If you want to get a last minute write-in vote campaign going, you're more than welcome to.

Winner decides the next challenge. At this point it seems like both the engineering and the creative challenge are going to be me again though. I need to think up something easy enough that people will actually participate. I thought paper airplanes were basic enough. Maybe it was the video requirement?

EDIT: er... it looks like there's some tape on that. It would have to go in the creative category.
 
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