Secrets of an airplane from childhood, or how to make a paper airplane

2024 Author: Leah Sherlock | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-17 05:25

As a child, I so wanted to make a paper plane that would fly the farthest. If this desire has not yet passed or you want to tell your children the secrets of an airplane that you can fold on your own in a few minutes, this article is for those. How to make a paper airplane with your own hands, a sheet of paper and a detailed description of the steps will help.

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Airplanes have always been a symbol of courage, freedom and will. Which of us in childhood did not dream of making the best paper airplane that would fly farther and longer than others. Those of the same age who knew the secrets of the origami plane were like magicians.

So how do you make a paper airplane that flies? Here and now you can learn the main secrets of a paper airplane, which you can make with your own hands in a matter of minutes and launch into the air.

The paper used for origami needs to be as thin as possible. Not cigarette, of course, but whatman paper will not work either, foldswill be of poor quality, uneven and unnecessarily voluminous. Take plain writing paper with a minimum density. Most origami schemes are designed for sheet sizes corresponding to the standard A4 format.

When making any model, you need to monitor the symmetry of the parts. In order for a do-it-yourself airplane to fly well, care must be taken on the folds: displaced, fuzzy and rounded kinks should not be allowed.

But the main secret is in the tail of the plane. It must be done as carefully as possible and be sure to bend the short “flaps” at the ends. This will ensure a long stay in the air, which means that your plane will fly far.

The production time of any, even the most complex aircraft, is no more than half an hour, provided that the instructions are clear.

Different models are similar in appearance, but differ in manufacturing details, which are not always given importance. But the desired result most often depends on the details. Therefore, the following are descriptions of paper airplanes of various levels of complexity, the diagrams describe in detail how to make a paper airplane in stages. Start with the simplest, then it will not be difficult to make a complex one.

Easy paper plane

1. For making a paper airplane with your own hands, a sheet of A4 paper or a size commensurate with it in length and width is suitable. Place the sheet in front of you as convenient as possible, and carefully fold it in half. Check that the fold is parallel to the long side of the sheet, aligned edgessheets must match perfectly. Gently, pressing a little, iron the sheet along the fold with your finger. You can bend the sheet in the other direction and iron the fold again with your fingers.
2. Place the unfolded sheet in front of you vertically. Bend the top corners alternately so that one of the sides of the corner coincides with the fold line. As a result, the top of the sheet should look like a triangle with a right angle.
3. Without turning the sheet over, once again fold the top (already folded) corners to the center fold line. Now the top of the sheet forms an acute angle.
4. Fold the resulting workpiece in half along the fold line, while the double-folded corners are inside.
5. Stepping back five centimeters from the line of the central fold, you need to bend the "wings" of the sheet parallel to the fold. We got airplane wings.
6. At the end of the work, you need to bend the edges of the wings a width of one centimeter towards the middle of the workpiece, perpendicular to the lower, wide part of the wing, and parallel to the longest fold line. The plane is ready.
7. Check the flying ability of the model.

How to make an intermediate paper airplane

1. Fold a sheet of A4 paper in half in the same way as in the first option.
2. You need to fold the sheet across so that the fold lines form right angles and divide the sheet into four equal parts. Gently press the folds with your fingers. Pay attention to ensure that the edges of the sheet match perfectly when folding the paper.
3. Place the sheet in front of youvertically. Now you need to bend the upper corners to the long fold line so that a triangle is formed (as in the previous model).
4. Repeat the 3rd step of making the previous airplane, you need to bend the corners a second time to the fold lines to form an acute angle.
5. Fold the top corner of the paper down, aligning with the fold line. The same must be done by turning the sheet over to the other side.
6. Bend the formed "nose" in the direction "away from you" along the line of the transverse fold of the paper.
7. Turn the sheet over so that the bent "nose" remains on the bottom of the sheet. Place the workpiece in front of you with the fold up. Bend the corners a third time to the vertical fold line.
8. Turn the workpiece over and bend the previously bent "nose" to the points of intersection with the sides.
9. The plane is almost ready, it remains to form the wings. They need to be done in the same way as in the first option: bend the workpiece along a vertical line so that the “nose” that has just been bent is inside the workpiece. Stepping back 5 centimeters from the long fold line, make parallel folds on both sides - the wings are ready.
10. On the wings, on the bottom, widest part, fold in the "up" direction (or the opposite direction from the direction of the fold of the entire wing) strips 1 centimeter wide along the main fold.

How to make an advanced paper airplane

In the manufacture of this model, the main and auxiliary fold lines are used, so be careful: iron the main lines withstrong enough pressure, and auxiliary - slightly outlining the fold.

1. Just like the previous models, take a rectangular sheet of paper and fold it in half vertically, this will be the first main fold. Further, a number of folds will be auxiliary, they only need to be slightly marked.
2. Place the unfolded sheet in front of you vertically. Bend the upper corners to the central fold and lightly iron with your finger, these are auxiliary lines.
3. Unfold the folded corners and fold them over, but to the lines of the previous folds, on each side respectively. These will also be auxiliary lines.
4. Now you need to bend the resulting folded corners to the line of the central vertical fold.
5. The resulting corner in the upper part of the sheet must be bent towards you along the line formed by the lower end points of the fold lines of the left and right corners in the previous step. As a result of the kink, the end of the corner will extend beyond the bottom edge of the sheet. Be sure to check that the vertical fold line matches when folding the paper. The resulting transverse line will be one of the main ones, so it can be smoothed out well by bending to both sides of the sheet.
6. Next, you need to straighten the sheet and lay it vertically in front of you so that the diagonal folds from the folding corners are at the top of the sheet.
7. Fold the top corners of the paper to the pre-fold mark closest to the top edge. The resulting line will be permanent, so it can be thoroughly ironed.
8. Now bend the received side over the top edge tothe center of the sheet. Iron the lines well.
9. Next, you need to bend the corner in the direction "away from you" along the main transverse line formed earlier (should pass just below the folded corners).
10. Now the corner must be bent in the opposite direction, parallel to the bottom edge of the sheet, through the point formed by the vertical fold and the combined upper corners folded into a triangle.
11. Turn the sheet over. The result is a horizontal rectangle with an angle peeking out from under it at the top of the structure. Now again you need to bend the formed upper corners to the vertical (central) fold line. Please note that behind the bent corner, the full corner located at the back will stretch, it must also be laid evenly and ironed. The vertically laid side of the back structure will not be parallel to the main center fold line, this should not confuse the modeler. The same must be done with the second side. The result should be an angular structure resembling a triangle, but with a difference in curvature on the sides.
12. Fold the structure in half along the center fold so that the underside of the structure is inside the folded piece.
13. Now we need to form the wings. To do this, you need to bend each side so that the narrower part of the wing (closer to the “nose”) forms a triangle with the sides. The wider part of the wing will protrude beyond the line of the main fold.
14. As a final touch, you need to bend the canvas in the wide part of the wing at a distance of one centimeter from the edge. It looks like flaps. Iron the outer folds again.

The plane is ready. Long-range flights to your planes!