If you create a new document in Google Docs, you’ll see a number of options in the “File” pull down menu. One of those options, which as far as I can tell wasn’t there yesterday, is “New airplane.” It’s right there after “New document.”
Choosing it opens a new file with folding instructions to build a paper airplane.
Why? Dunno. This is strange even for Google. Even on April Fools.
First reader to print it out, fold it properly, video it actually flying, upload the video on YouTube or any other video sharing service and post a link in the comments below gets a 2GB iPod Shuffle in the color of your choice. And we’ll give a second one to whoever can get the most distance from their plane (this is going to be somewhat subjective, I’ll make the final decision) (this is always entertaining). Thanks for the tip, Jonathan Chard. The pdf of the image is here.
More Google April Fools Craziness:
- Google And Virgin Team For Human Settlement On Mars
- Google Wake Up Kit
- YouTube RickRolls Users
- Gmail April Fools Not Very Funny. On the Upside, They Started A Wikipedia War
- Google Launches Future Search
- 2007
- 2006
My entry:
http://www.yout...h?v=Jr4dtvIJEwg
It’s still processing.
I wanted to post the above before the deadline. I ask that the judge(s) wait until the video is done processing before rendering a final verdict.
Cheers!
Wow, I gotta vote for that last second entry…
Alright, so to prove that my night video was actually real, here is a daytime version: http://www.yout...h?v=W9ysTRGzoN8 It goes about 30 feet less in the video, but it’s just to show that my original post wasn’t fake my original post: http://www.yout...feature=related
I’m pretty sure that’s the farthest horizontal distance any of the planes went on their own (and by on their own I mean without balloons and things, though that was creative!).
An occasionally starving student appreciates your vote.
These are funny too
http://www.thinkgeek.com/
Microsoft Publisher used to have this feature.
http://yourapri...sjokesucks.com/
I love Google.
Smrt thinking, will read again!! A+++
Hahah ah ah ah ah ahahah ah a Thank you everyone!! I haven’t laughed this much for yonks! hah hah aah ah ah – ut I’m a work so I’m laughing silently, and they all think I’m having a seizure!
Thanks Michael, still wiping the tears out of my eyes from the last one by CptOatmeal
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I think the april fools joke here was not that they had a paper airplane in google docs, but that their paper airplane that they put in google docs SUCKS. So google is sitting back laughing at all of you for putting this thing together and attempting to make it fly…
Try not to throw them so hard, throw them slow and gently let go of them.
they invest a lot for April fool! anyways eNjoy
I can’t believe all of them fell for this gag
Hmph. I was under the impression that, while the plane was a Google joke, the contest was a fun derivative that was actually real.
Seriously? Not that funny an April Fools joke Arrington…
Fair to say, I think, that the competition was legitimate, even though we could all work out for ourselves that the plane was a joke. Trust me, once assembled, only dropping it from a great height was going to make it “fly” – It rather took the Buzz Lightyear approach of falling with style. (thanks Brian for that hint!)
That said, with a tail and folded wings, it performs rather well as a stunt plane, which is what the design is based on (mis-spent school days).
Now, I think, we’re all waiting to hear the judge’s verdict on whose went the furthest…
Arrington simply needs to come on here and let us know the deal — was it a real contest or not?
Thanks everyone for participating in our contest. Your submissions were all excellent demonstrations of the airplane-making prowess of our readership.
But in the end, there can only be one distance winner. And that winner is Danny, whose plane gracefully fell from a tall Toronto building during windy weather.
Congrats to Danny and the others who were first to record their creations in flight.
this is so cool
go on it and give it a go now
good nice good