Hi, my name is Bryan Yerks. I am fifteen years old and I like to play with things that fly, rockets model airplanes and paper airplanes. I have thought about making very small paper air planes before to try and get them in side model rockets to get very high. what I came up with was a very small glider that was to fragile to do any thing but glide. I tried many designs and found that a hang glider shape worked best. While I was fling my kite, I noticed the airfoil created when it flew and decided to test these little airplanes out with this airfoil shape. WOW!! they glided so smoothly and so well I lost countless numbers of them in thermals. the most recent ones I make uses a hot glue gun to hold the wings on. using the glue gun allowed me to put a vertical stabilizer on it improving its performance even more. The best ones can glide over twenty feet when launched by hand standing up on the floor. ( I am about 5.5 feet tall) I am getting disappointed because I can not get them to go high and glide down like your world record plane dose. I would appreciate it if you could help me get altitude on these babies!
I hope you will try and make one of these. They are a lot of fun to play around the house with. You can make them turn in circles by the tail, or by differentiating the airfoil by making one side more or less than the other side. You can also make the plane pitch up or down by adding more air foil or less airfoil.
You make the airfoil by taking one side of the wing and running your thumb and forefinger along the front edge of the wing in a curling motion. You cut the wings out by folding a piece of paper in half and cutting half of the wing out.
Bryan Yerks
P.S. They are very sensitive to any adjustments. Cobwebs and humidity are its worst enemy!
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Subject: RE: Paper Airplane design Date: Thu, 13 Aug 1998 From: "Brison, William W" william.w.brison@lmco.com To: "'Ken Blackburn'" kblackbu@mail.win.org The design is like this: Square sheet of paper .-------------------------. |. . | .| | . . | . | | . .| . | | . . .| | . . . | | . . . | |----- . -----| | . . . | | . . . | | . . | | . |. . | | . | . . | |. | . .| `-------------------------' Straight lines are cuts. Dotted lines are folds up (to make "valleys"). It's really four small paper airplanes connected in a circle so they chase each other around. I came up with this about two years ago and I'm doing this from memory. This particular one doesn't really spin much on the way down. I don't know why. But it does do the little dance on the floor at the bottom. Experiment a little. It descends about 3 feet/second, that varies with how sharply the folds are creased.
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These are original planes which were submitted by Yupheng, Raymond, and Darleny Lee from Broomfield, CO. Yupheng made the Swan(upper right) and Stingray(lower left), Raymond did the Jetsting(lower left), and Darleny did the Bat plane(upper left). These are good examples of what you can create with a little creativity and practice.
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Gary Morrison from Austin TX submitted this plane - its made from one sheet of paper with no cuts - very impressive. His plane demonstrates the many variations that are possible with paper airplanes which can vary from simple darts to complex origami.
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2 Planes from Andre Vandal, A.V. Design
AVDBomber
AVDHyperjet
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A plane from Hayalet
Pattern
View up
View of bottom
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Paper Plane from Haili Sun
Page 1 Instructions
Page 2 Instructions
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Ken, see attached plans of a plane I've made by the hundreds. I saw this design on a 1968 or ' 69 TIME magazine on a feature about a japanese paper plane contest, since I've flown some, and added some improvements. Try it, it's a different kind, compared to the ones you have on your site. Congratulations for your achievements. Best regards André C. Schwob Margem esquerda do Rio Patauateua 68825-000 Muaná - PA Brazil
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From Keith Myerscough in the Netherlands:
Cassiopea plans
Cassiopea pic
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