By: mcfly on 8:23 AM

how to make paper airplanes : Stunt Fly

This beast can be either a menace to fellow students, or a graceful glider, flying over to perch on your shoulder or someone’s mortar-board!

1.  Use A4 paper only (or shorten a piece of foolscap). Fold in half upwards.

2. Valley fold in the general area indicated.

3. Place your finger under A, bringing the flap over to the right. Note the hidden section of the valley fold.

4. Fold end several times (approximately eight or nine times depending on weight distribution factor).

5. Fold in half.

6. Bring wings down. Note hidden fold detail. Make a small “rabbit-ear” kink in the forward section so that the centre tail can remain upright.

7. The completed Stunt Fly.

Throwing Suggestions

Make sure your model is perfectly symmetrical. To make it return to you in a vertical circle, grasp the centre-forward section with the underside facing you. Lift it up and away from you. It should loop. To make a horizontal circle with underside facing you, throw upwards at a 30-degr angle away from you. This is quite a versatile creature that will have nature lovers intrigued by its graceful manoeuvrability. If  it lands on your desk – don’t swat it!  

credit : Advanced Paper Aircraft Construction Book

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By: mcfly on 5:16 AM

how to make paper airplanes : Air Hopper

A graceful glider that will “flap” its wings and hop through the air like a butterfly.

1. Use a sheet of A4 or foolscap paper. Remember that in most cases you should fold it in half first to make a crease. In this case, have the paper horizontally facing you. Fold the top corners down.

2. Fold the top point down to meet the bottom edge.

3. Tuck tour finger under point A, bringing point B over to the centre crease, noting valley and mountain folds involved.

4. Halfway there. Do the same for the other side.

5. Fold the centre point up, then mountain fold in half.

6. Fold wings down in both positions indicated. If you want a straight(non-stalling) glider fold down along only one of the lines indicated to determine stability (see asterisk).

7. The completed Air Hopper

Throwing Suggestions

For loops – using heavier and more rigid paper, throw hard and high into the air. Alternatively, you can let it glide from a high spot, say, from the back row of an opera house, and it will hop up and down, annoyingly distracting the conductor and everyone else.

credit : Advanced Paper Aircraft Construction Book

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