How to make a paper airplane

Paper Airplane Game

This paper airplane game can be played online. It’s fun and you can invite 5 of your friends to make your own paper airplane online and then see who will throw a new paper airplane record :-)

You don’t need to fold anything yourself, it’s more like putting your paper airplane designing skills and throwing skills to the test.

Paper airplane free game

You can play this paper airplane game online at http://www.solidworkspilot.com/.

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Paper Airplane Designs to choose form

First you need to built the best paper airplane ever. How to make a paper airplane online now is easy: you need to choose out of 3 paper airplane designs and specify :

paper airplane recordOnce you have built your paper airplane, it’s time to practice (blue button right bottom) or to play (red button right bottom). Since I didn’t have anybody ready to play the paper airplane game, I started practicing. In order to throw a paper airplane record you need to play around with the paper airplane designs and with the strength you throw the paper airplane. Of course I tried out the full strength throw, yet that mostly is a bit too good to be true :-)

After some practice my paper airplane record stands at 31.7m:

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My paper airplane game record: 31.7m

Please play the game, take a screenshot and show us if you can break my paper airplane game record!

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Paper Airplane Software

Looking for a freeware paper airplane software, I managed to find this shareware version called Greatest Paper Airplanes. It’s a very old shareware software (1998), yet for making paper airplanes, age doesn’t really matter :-)

Paper Airplane Software shareware version

This paper airplane software has 5 animated 3-dimensional tutorials on the art of folding paper airplanes. You can learn how to fold 5 dart paper airplanes.

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Paper airplane software tutorial for 5 dart paper airplanes

You can read a chapter about flying, giving you a brief history, basic aerodynamics, some airplane terms and paper airplane flights.

The next chapter deals with your basic ingredient: paper. Again some history about paper, basics of the paper airplane folding crafts, common paper folds and how all comes together when building paper airplanes.

Paper Airplane Software full version

If you buy the complete program, you will get 4 times 5 extra paper airplane tutorials about:

  1. Gliders
  2. Jets & Bombers
  3. SSTs & Stealth
  4. Starships

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Paper airplane software tutorial for 25 paper airplanes

I will be on the outlook for more Paper Airplane Software, yet if you know Paper Airplane Software , please share with us in a comment!

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Paper airplane record

Paper Airplane Record Rules

1. The aircraft must be constructed from one sheet of A 4 paper of less than 100 gsm.

2. The paper can be cut, but any piece of paper cut off cannot be rejoined.

3. The use of standard light-duty clear cellulose adhesive tape of width 25 mm and total length 30 mm is permitted on any one aircraft. The tape may be cut up into smaller pieces but shall be used to hold down folds only and shall not be layered, joined together, used as a weight, used for laminating a surface nor used as a control device such as a trim-tab or flap. Glue, paperclips or staples are not permitted.

Research on paper airplane

An idea from Jason Smith interpreting the paper airplane record rule number 2 that you cannot completely cut of a piece of the paper airplane and then re-attach it again!


Look at how to make a paper airplane without ever removing the tail from the plane:

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Paper airplane record: how to keep the tail attached

There will most likely be excess paper on the side of the tail which is inserted into the plane:

Leave a comment if you have a paper airplane record!

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