From: ab528@FreeNet.Carleton.CA (Heinz W. Wiggeshoff) Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Subject: Paper Airplanes (Was Re: What's a Viewgraph? Date: 13 Jul 2001 20:54:18 GMT Organization: The National Capital FreeNet Lines: 35 Message-ID: <9inn5q$jnt$1@freenet9.carleton.ca> References: <20010713212341.4f6e78b9.steveo@eircom.net> Reply-To: ab528@FreeNet.Carleton.CA (Heinz W. Wiggeshoff) NNTP-Posting-Host: freenet10 X-Trace: freenet9.carleton.ca 995057658 20221 134.117.136.30 (13 Jul 2001 20:54:18 GMT) X-Complaints-To: complaints@ncf.ca NNTP-Posting-Date: 13 Jul 2001 20:54:18 GMT X-Given-Sender: ab528@freenet10.carleton.ca (Heinz W. Wiggeshoff) Path: chonsp.franklin.ch!pfaff.ethz.ch!news-zh.switch.ch!news-ge.switch.ch!newsfeeds.belnet.be!news.belnet.be!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news.kjsl.com!xcski.com!freenet-news!FreeNet.Carleton.CA!ab528 Xref: chonsp.franklin.ch alt.folklore.computers:85255 Steve O'Hara-Smith (steveo@eircom.net) writes: > On 13 Jul 2001 19:09:10 GMT > ab528@FreeNet.Carleton.CA (Heinz W. Wiggeshoff) wrote: > > HW> Steve O'Hara-Smith (steveo@eircom.net) writes: > > HW> Depending on the time frame, they were either practicing for The Great > > It would have been around 1976/77. After 15 minutes of searching the wrong room, I found the book at the TOP of a bookshelf! The Great International Paper Airplane Book By Jerry Mander, George Dippel and Howard Gossage The official record, analysis, and fly-it-yourself compendium of high-achievement paper airplanes from the Scientific American 1st International Paper Airplane Competition, held during the winter of '66-'67, an event that has already taken its proper place in aeronautical history. Told by the men who were there. (Illustrated and annotated) c/r 1967 by Shade Tree Corporation Published by Simon and Shuster Rockefeller Center, 630 Fifth Avenue NY NY 10020 Lib. of Congress Cat. Card No. 68-12169 $2.95 128 pages It has been decades since I cracked this book. Things seemed more effervescent back then. ###### From: Steve O'Hara-Smith Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Subject: Re: Paper Airplanes (Was Re: What's a Viewgraph? Date: Fri, 13 Jul 2001 23:59:35 +0200 Organization: Wanadoo NL Lines: 28 Message-ID: <20010713235935.3fc636c5.steveo@eircom.net> References: <20010713212341.4f6e78b9.steveo@eircom.net> <9inn5q$jnt$1@freenet9.carleton.ca> NNTP-Posting-Host: p0805.vcu.wanadoo.nl Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: scavenger.euro.net 995062309 93138 194.134.202.42 (13 Jul 2001 22:11:49 GMT) X-Complaints-To: abuse@wanadoo.nl NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 13 Jul 2001 22:11:49 +0000 (UTC) X-Newsreader: Sylpheed version 0.4.99cvs3 (GTK+ 1.2.10; i386-unknown-freebsdelf4.3) Path: chonsp.franklin.ch!pfaff.ethz.ch!news-zh.switch.ch!newsfeed-zh.ip-plus.net!news.ip-plus.net!news.tesion.net!news.belwue.de!news-stu1.dfn.de!news-mue1.dfn.de!news-nue1.dfn.de!news-lei1.dfn.de!newsfeed.freenet.de!news2.euro.net!news.euronet.nl!ams-gw.sohara.org!nobody Xref: chonsp.franklin.ch alt.folklore.computers:85260 On 13 Jul 2001 20:54:18 GMT ab528@FreeNet.Carleton.CA (Heinz W. Wiggeshoff) wrote: HW> After 15 minutes of searching the wrong room, I found the book at HW> the TOP of a bookshelf! Your book collection must resemble mine :) HW> The Great International Paper Airplane Book HW> By Jerry Mander, George Dippel and Howard Gossage This goes on the list of books to find :) HW> winter of '66-'67, an event that has already taken its proper It must have been good for the FRS crowd to be still at it ten years later. I just put it down to them being lucky (or clever) enough not to have needed to grow up. HW> It has been decades since I cracked this book. Things seemed HW> more effervescent back then. :) -- Directable Mirrors - A Better Way To Focus The Sun http://www.best.com/~sohara