Paper Airplane Tutorial

by one-lightbulb in Living > Office Supply Hacks

8056 Views, 3 Favorites, 0 Comments

Paper Airplane Tutorial

fly17.jpg
Here I show you how to fold a paper airplane.


Take One Sheet of Paper (A4 or Letter)

fly1.jpg
You can either take a blank sheet or print out the pdf files.
Print fly1.pdf on on side and fly2.pdf on the other (of one sheet).
The two "Print arrows" must point in the same direction!

I also make a color version of the airplan with a jet engine (see: fly_color1.pdf and fly_color2.pdf).
Hope you like it.

Lets Start Folding

fly2.jpg
fly3.jpg
Fold the upper right corner down to the left side of the paper (#1). Open up again and repeat it with the left corner (#2).

Turning Point

fly4.jpg
fly5.jpg
Turn the page. Fold the top third down (#3). The fold should be in the center of the cross!

Two Stars Join

fly6.jpg
fly7.jpg
fly8.jpg
Turn the page again. Now put together the two stars and press down the top part.

Go On

fly9.jpg
fly10.jpg
fly11.jpg
Fold two layers of the triangle to the top corner (#4). After that fold the whole top corner down to the horizontal line (#5).

Fold a Handle

fly12.jpg
fly13.jpg
fly14.jpg
Fold in half (#6). Flip over and fold at line #7.
Now you have a handle.

Winglets

fly15.jpg
fly16.jpg
fly18.jpg
Fold 1/3 of the wing (#8) towards the center. Last time flip over and fold 1/2 of the winglet in opposite direction(#9).

In the color Version I build in "landing flaps". With a scissor you cut the flaps twice and bend them up- or downwards to get better flying characteristics.

Done