Paper Plane Simulator Physics Problems- Help

Wanted to provide an update. I have tried simple transform.Rotate to move the plane. While these work, they are clunky and don't seem to be the best options. Also, my lift seems to have issues with being a constant force and I find myself taking off into space. Here is my flight script so far.

var rotateAmountY = 2.0;

var rotateAmountX = 1.0;

var thrust = -5000;

var maxThrust = -5000;

//var lift = Vector3.Project(Vector3.up);

function Update()

{

if (Input.GetAxis("Horizontal") < 0)

        transform.Rotate(0, 0, -rotateAmountY); 

    

else if (Input.GetAxis("Horizontal") > 0)

        transform.Rotate(0, 0, rotateAmountY); 

if (Input.GetAxis("Vertical") < 0)

    { 

      transform.Rotate(-rotateAmountX, 0, 0); 

    }

else if (Input.GetAxis("Vertical") > 0)

        transform.Rotate(rotateAmountX, 0, 0);

        

}

function FixedUpdate()

{

 rigidbody.AddForce(transform.forward * thrust);

 rigidbody.AddForce(transform.up * rigidbody.velocity.magnitude);    

}

Still nothing.... hmmm......

Spoke with a few friends today who said (contrary to what I've read on other forums) that the standard asset "first-person controller" (or third) is okay to use. Just gotta tinker a bit but it beats writing your own script. Is this true?

So it seems that the community is amassed of those either without the desire to share their knowledge or lacking in knowledge to share. I am somewhat disappointed that after nearly 100 views there hasn't been even conjecture on the topic. Looking at other questions, some have nearly 3000 views without any conversation around coming up with a solution. This leaves me with a dismal opinion of this site, hopefully I am wrong but the vast majority of the community seems to be unwilling to partake in conversation around potential solutions to questions they view and instead wait for someone to come up with an answer that they can leech upon after it is posted.

That said:

I am still working on getting the third-person controller to work. It seems that the best way to do this is to reduce gravity to a very small amount to simulate the slow descent of a plane. This coupled with a constant forward force and adjusting the wasd key commands has given promising results. When I am happy with it as a beta I will post some script.

Ok, so I've realized that 'lift' is a force that is not needed for a paper airplane. Since my game will have no way of increasing forward velocity other than angling down, lift will have no use in the game. I am going to continue working on the control of flight with an initial velocity and a reset of height/velocity upon interacting with vents/barrels etc.

Yes, sad to see no responses. I too am working on some airplane controls and while I'm exploring "powered" flight I'm interested in the un-powered paper airplane approach too. I've been having difficulty getting things to work 100% using rigidbody+collider and using forces and torques (for some reason adding the collider changed everything). I do have some working versions that use forces, torques and also manipulate the rigidbody.rotation. I also have a different version working that uses a character controller, and transform.Rotate and controller.Move. Let me know if you want me to post what I have. Did you ever get your stuff working?