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🧪 Paper Airplane Design & Flight Dynamics - 2D Side-View Flight Path and Phugoid

2D companion of the paper-airplane lab: a side-view point-mass flight model with lift, drag and weight, the phugoid oscillation, glide ratio and a launch-condition explorer.

Physics & Mechanics2DModerate60 FPS📱 Mobile-adapted⇄ 3D version

⚙ Under the hood

2D companion of the paper-airplane lab: a side-view point-mass flight model with lift, drag and weight, the phugoid oscillation, glide ratio and a launch-condition explorer.

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2D · HTML5 Canvas 2D · 60 FPS target · runs fully client-side, no install