Gliding Plane

This paper airplane glides for long distances and is perfect to throw from high areas.

Gliding Plane

This paper airplane glides for long distances and is perfect to throw from high areas.

A quick flyer. The odd folds are made to withstand the wind.

Hard difficulty Letter & A4 Paper Time aloft Acrobatic Measurements

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Paper Airplane Folding Instructions

1. Fold the paper in half.

2. Bring the right corner down to meet the bottom-center of the left rectangle. If you are using A4 sized paper, stop 2cm away from the bottom edge.

3. Open the sheet and repeat with the other corner to get the creases shown.

4. Open the sheet back up and accordion fold the center in.

5. Now, fold the outer flaps to the center line.

6. Fold the center piece up as shown.

7. Take the outer points and fold them in twice so they're tucked in.

8. Fold the plane in half towards you.

9. Finally, fold out the edges to complete the plane. If you want, you can give it a fancy crinkle fold as pictured.

Final Paper Airplane Design

This design works best when thrown gently, slightly upwards. The fancy crinkle folded wing shown in the picture is optional, but if you get it right it can make this airplane slowly rock back and forth.

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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	9
Distance Flown Average Distance Thrown by a 10yr old	28.4 ft / 8.6 m
Time Aloft Average Time Aloft Thrown by a 10yr old	1.6 sec

Convert to Imperial	Letter Paper
Length The distance from nose to tail	19.9 cm
Wingspan The longest distance from wingtip to wingtip	14.1 cm
Wing Chord The average length of the wing, from front to back	12.4 cm
Wing Area The area of all wing surfaces	174.5 cm²
Wing Loading The averaged weight carried by the wings	263.7 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

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