Fearless folding Now that you understand the basic principles of flight, it is time to create a paper airplane, if you are just begin-ding your career as a paper airplane pilot, start with the dart or square models. They both fly well, and their simplicity allows you to spend less time folding and more time …

Folding And Flying Your Planes Almost anyone can make paper airplanes, but it helps to know a little about how best to fold them and how to make them fly the way you want. The following guidelines will help you have great flights from the get-go. Tip: If you are a first-time paper airplane pilot, …

A Paper Plane Ready To Glide A paper airplane falls down due to gravity and glides forward through the air at the same time. We’ll measure the glide ratio the ratio of the distance glided to the distance fallen. Material A paper airplane A meter stick String Assembly Fold a paper plane. (See the animations …

Designing Your Own Paper Airplanes The best way to begin designing your own airplanes is to modify my designs. Try adding wing tip fins to an existing design by bending the outermost half inch of the wing up or down. Or make your plane is fuselage taller or narrower, longer or shorter. As you gain …

Low Reynolds Number Flight Paper airplanes are smaller and fly slower than most other aircraft. So how does that affect their aerodynamics? Back in 1883 Osborne Reynolds, professor of engineering at the University of Manchester (England) carried out experiments to determine why fluid forces through pipes changed for different conditions. Basically what he discovered is …