how to make paperplanes
Paper Airplanes
Materials
1. Different types of paper (printer paper, construction paper, oaktag, tissue paper, newspaper, etc.) 2. Scissors
Directions
1. Choose a type of paper airplane to make. Suggestions are attached to this worksheet. You can also try to make your own!
2. Fly your paper airplanes.
3. Compare the flights of different types of airplanes and different types of papers.
Questions
1. Why do some airplanes fly better than others?
2. How do the different papers effect the flight? Are different papers easier to work with?
3. Why do some papers work better than others?
4. Based on how well your planes flew, can you explain how planes fly?
The Deltry Paper Airplane
The Deltry paperairplane is easy to fly, and very easy to make. It flies slowly, and very smoothly and gently.
And it holds together nicely. It's a good bet to become the standard paper airplane people make, because it's easy and the results are amazingly good.
Because this is the simplest plane here, and the first, pardon us for explaining how to create it quite slowly and carefully, so that everyone can follow along, in twelve very simple steps.
1. Take an 8 1/2 by 11 inch sheet of paper, and crease it along the middle, by folding it in half lengthwise along the dashed "valley fold" line shown and unfold again. 2. After this point, the result of one folding operation will be shown together with the next folding instructions. 3. Now fold down the top corners inward to the center crease along the dashed "valley folds" shown, making two new right-angle triangles visible in illustration 4.
4. Fold the large top triangle (made up of the two small triangles you just created in step 3), over and down.
5. Fold the lower part of the tip of the large triangle up again.
But note - not quite all the way up to the top.
6. Leave about 3/8ths of an inch of space from the top. This will help the flaps to lock under tightly and keep the airplane
Materials
1. Different types of paper (printer paper, construction paper, oaktag, tissue paper, newspaper, etc.) 2. Scissors
Directions
1. Choose a type of paper airplane to make. Suggestions are attached to this worksheet. You can also try to make your own!
2. Fly your paper airplanes.
3. Compare the flights of different types of airplanes and different types of papers.
Questions
1. Why do some airplanes fly better than others?
2. How do the different papers effect the flight? Are different papers easier to work with?
3. Why do some papers work better than others?
4. Based on how well your planes flew, can you explain how planes fly?
The Deltry Paper Airplane
The Deltry paperairplane is easy to fly, and very easy to make. It flies slowly, and very smoothly and gently.
And it holds together nicely. It's a good bet to become the standard paper airplane people make, because it's easy and the results are amazingly good.
Because this is the simplest plane here, and the first, pardon us for explaining how to create it quite slowly and carefully, so that everyone can follow along, in twelve very simple steps.
1. Take an 8 1/2 by 11 inch sheet of paper, and crease it along the middle, by folding it in half lengthwise along the dashed "valley fold" line shown and unfold again. 2. After this point, the result of one folding operation will be shown together with the next folding instructions. 3. Now fold down the top corners inward to the center crease along the dashed "valley folds" shown, making two new right-angle triangles visible in illustration 4.
4. Fold the large top triangle (made up of the two small triangles you just created in step 3), over and down.
5. Fold the lower part of the tip of the large triangle up again.
But note - not quite all the way up to the top.
6. Leave about 3/8ths of an inch of space from the top. This will help the flaps to lock under tightly and keep the airplane