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