Heavy-Nosed Plane

A basic dart with a blunt heavy nose.

Heavy-Nosed Plane

A basic dart with a blunt heavy nose.

This starts off like a basic dart, but the additional folds give it more weight at the nose, allowing it to go far.

Hard difficulty Letter & A4 Paper Distance Time aloft Measurements

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Paper Airplane Folding Instructions

1. Fold the paper in half and unfold.

2. Fold the top two corners to the center line

3. Fold the upper sides to the center line.

4. Fold the top point down to the bottom edge of the paper.

5. Now, fold the point back up about 5.5cm past the top edge.

6. Fold the point back down again to the edge of the previous crease.

7. Fold the paper plane in half towards you.

8. Finally, fold both sides down to create the wings.

Final Paper Airplane Design

Experiment with the distances that you fold the tip back and forth to adjust how much weight is put into the nose. If you make the nose very heavy, you can make this airplane fly loops.

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These beautiful, easy to follow, paper airplane folding instructions can be downloaded and printed as many times as you want. Simply follow the printed instructions and fold along the indicated lines to make a perfect paper airplane, every time.

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Number of Folds	8
Distance Flown Average Distance Thrown by a 10yr old	24 ft / 7.4 m
Time Aloft Average Time Aloft Thrown by a 10yr old	2.4 sec

Convert to Imperial	Letter Paper
Length The distance from nose to tail	15.6 cm
Wingspan The longest distance from wingtip to wingtip	13 cm
Wing Chord The average length of the wing, from front to back	10.2 cm
Wing Area The area of all wing surfaces	132.3 cm²
Wing Loading The averaged weight carried by the wings	347.8 g/m²

The Wing Loading is how much of the paper airplane's weight is being lifted by each unit area of the wing's surface. In general, an airplane with a lower wing loading will glider better. A standard piece of 75gsm printer paper is used for all of these measurements across the website.

References

• The Worlds Greatest Paper Airplane and Toy Book

• The Ultimate Guide to Paper Airplanes

• Paper Planes

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