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Hi! There's a paper airplane I've made which I learned out of a book a while back - the book called it either a "condor" or "albatross", I forget which, but sea
by skykooler 8y ago
Hi! There's a paper airplane I've made which I learned out of a book a while back - the book called it either a "condor" or "albatross", I forget which, but searching for either of those names turns up different designs. It's an excellent glider, and one of the few designs I know that start with the paper in landscape orientation.
If you're interested, here's how to fold it:
- With the paper in landscape orientation, fold the top corners to meet in the middle.
- Fold the top corner [just created] down to the point where those two corners meet.
- Fold the two new obtuse corners on the top to meet in the middle. Tape into place.
- Fold in half left-to-right, so that the taped corners are on the outside of the fold.
- Fold the edges back down to the centerline.
- Unfold, and smooth out to give it the profile of an upside-down flattened W. The flatter, the better it will glide, but if it's too flat it will spin.
Launch by holding the back, as it has no vertical surface to grip on the bottom.
- woah 8y agoThat book was "the gliding flight"
- tobr 8y agoThis is quite difficult to follow without illustrations... do you know of any folding diagrams for it?
- SmellyGeekBoy 8y agoHa! I remember these being my go-to as a kid. Classmates always ended up taking them home so I must have been doing something right.