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The Thrill of Flight
Basic Square Paper Airplane
1) Use a full sheet of photocopy paper. Begin measuring and marking at one end every 2 cm on each side of the page. Make 8 measurements and draw lines to connect.
Draw a centre line and on each side draw a line 1.5 cm from the centre line as shown.
2) Begin to make parallel valley folds, starting at the bottom of the sheet.
3) Continue until the "wing" areas look like this.
2 cm
Wing Wing
WingWing
1 of 3
Valley fold Mountain fold Sink fold
Topic 5: Gliders
The Thrill of Flight
Basic Square Paper Airplane2 of 3
Valley fold Mountain fold Sink fold
Topic 5: Gliders
4) Valley-fold along the centre line.
6) Be sure to crease the folds neatly at the front of the plane.
5) Mountain-fold the two wings parallel to the centreline, leaving 1.5 cm on either side of the line for the fuselege of the plane.
7) To fly well, your plane should have it's wings higher than the fuselage.
Fuselagefold
front
Fuselage
Wing
Wing
top
top
2 cm
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