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    Amazing Paper Airplanes: The Craft and Science of Flight
    Amazing Paper Airplanes: The Craft and Science of Flight
    Amazing Paper Airplanes: The Craft and Science of Flight
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    Amazing Paper Airplanes: The Craft and Science of Flight

    By Kyong Hwa Lee

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    In this book Kyong Hwa Lee combines the art of origami and the science of flight to create unique paper airplane designs for aviation enthusiasts of all ages. Featuring thirty-two designs, Amazing Paper Airplanes showcases models resembling real-world aircraft, including the F-22 fighter jet, a P-51 World War II plane, the Convair F-102 Delta Dagger—the first supersonic delta-wing interceptor airplane of the US Air Force—and more. For these models, Lee provides information along with an image of the real plane to encourage interest in aerospace technology. Every design has been flight-tested and presents complete step-by-step folding instructions. In addition to showing basic and advanced folding techniques and providing templates for each plane, the author explains the theory behind flight and offers tips to fine-tune paper airplanes for optimal flying.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherUniversity of New Mexico Press
    Release dateMay 15, 2016
    ISBN9780826356659
    Amazing Paper Airplanes: The Craft and Science of Flight
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    Kyong Hwa Lee

    Kyong Hwa Lee holds a doctorate in electrical engineering and has worked for more than twenty-five years in the aerospace industry. Lee has designed over one hundred unique paper airplanes over the last thirty years. His coauthored Paper Airplane Fold-a-Day calendar has been popular worldwide since its first publication in 2006. Every day hundreds of paper airplane enthusiasts visit his website at www.amazingpaperairplanes.com.

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      Book preview

      Amazing Paper Airplanes - Kyong Hwa Lee

      INTRODUCTION

      WELCOME TO THE world of paper airplanes! This book will guide you through a number of creative paper airplane designs ranging from novice to advanced models. Many of the planes shown attempt to mimic real-world planes that you may have seen. In these cases, this book will provide some information on the real plane as well, to encourage your interest in aerospace technology.

      This book has a number of sections in order to appeal to all types of readers. The most adventurous may choose to venture straight to the folding directions and start making paper airplanes. However, for those who are newer to paper airplanes, this book begins with an introduction to materials, basic folding symbols, and airplane terminology. For the scientifically minded, the science behind paper airplane flight is explained, but if you would like to go straight to folding planes, you can skip the theory sections or return to them later. Last but not least are the directions on how to fold paper airplanes.

      Feel free to move around this book at your own pace, but always mind the one and only rule: Have fun!

      Materials and Tools

      Paper is, of course, the most important material for folding a paper airplane. Notebook or computer paper is very good for paper airplanes and is probably the easiest to find, but you can use other kinds of paper as well. Most of the paper airplane designs in this book are based on standard 8½ × 11-inch, US letter-size paper. If you have a different size of paper, don’t worry—your planes may look slightly different (maybe narrower or wider), but it won’t affect your flights too much.

      Scissors may be useful for trimming your planes. If you photocopy the templates at the end of the book, you may also want to trim the borders of your copies so they have a neat edge. (Note: Younger children should always have adult supervision for this.)

      Tape is an optional item but can be very useful for airplane designs that have many folds. It can help keep the correct shape of the paper airplane while you fold it.

      The Two Basic Folds

      The two basic folds are the valley fold and the mountain fold. They are nearly identical, but one (valley) will hide the fold line, and the other (mountain) will leave the fold line visible. That is, if you were to draw a line on a piece of paper, then valley fold on that line, you would no longer be able to see the line you drew after the fold was complete. If you did a mountain fold, the line would be visible on the crease once you were done.

      A valley fold is done by bringing one side of the sheet up onto itself. The fold line is in a valley and not visible once the fold is complete because it is inside the folded paper. Note how you can create a valley fold from either the top or the bottom edge. Our paper airplane diagrams will use a dash line when you should use a valley fold. Note that the folding direction is shown with a triangle arrowhead.

      The Valley Fold (Sequence A)

      The Valley Fold (Sequence B)

      The Mountain Fold (Sequence A)

      The mountain fold is almost identical to the valley fold, except that you take one edge of the paper and fold it behind itself. Just like the valley fold, the mountain fold can be done with the paper either way: the top edge back under the bottom, or the bottom edge back under the top. The important difference is that the fold line is visible on the outside of the paper once you are done with the fold. In our diagrams we will use a dash-dot line or a dash-dot-dot line to represent a mountain fold. Note that the folding direction is shown with a half-triangle arrowhead.

      The Mountain Fold (Sequence B)

      The Inside Reverse Fold

      The next fold to learn is the inside reverse fold. This is a slightly more advanced fold that is often used to make the tail fin of paper airplanes. This fold gets its name from the fact that the original creases you make get reversed and placed inside the paper. To perform this fold, begin with a sheet of paper folded in half. Steps 1 through 4 are used to crease the paper. In step 5, the paper is opened slightly, and the corner tip is pushed inside and in between the two outer layers of paper. Step 6 shows the completed inside reverse fold.

      1. Make a valley fold diagonally.

      2. Crease, then unfold.

      3. Make a mountain fold.

      4. Crease, then unfold.

      5. Press the corner tip into two layers.

      6. The inside reverse fold is complete.

      More Symbols and Signs

      Shown below are the symbols and signs used in this book. You do not need to memorize these. They are listed here so that you may refer back to this page when you need to know the meaning of a symbol or a sign.

      Folding symbols

      Paper Format Conversion

      Depending on the paper you choose to use, you might need to cut it to the right size. Newspaper, advertising brochures, and other non-letter-size paper will have to be cut to the right width and height.

      There are two width-to-height ratios that come in handy when folding paper airplanes. Some planes require a 2 to 1 ratio, meaning that the paper is twice as long as it is wide. Other planes are better constructed with the International Standard A series, which has a ratio of 1.414 to 1. This means that for every inch of the width, the length will be 1.414 (the square root of 2) inches.

      Let’s start with directions on how to prepare a paper with a size ratio of 2 to 1:

      1. Fold the paper in half.

      2. Bring the top corner to the side edge and flatten.

      3. Cut the paper along the edge of the triangle flap and open the paper.

      4. The paper has a size ratio of 2 to 1.

      PAPER SIZE RATIO OF 2 TO 1

      Here are the instructions for preparing paper using the International Standard A

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