The Klutz Book of Paper Airplanes | DOUG STILLINGER

8/7/2019 The Klutz Book of Paper Airplanes | DOUG STILLINGER

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LUTZ creates activity books and3- e greot stuff for kids ages 3 to 103.e egan our corporate life in 1977 in

~ goroge we shared with a Chevrolet- polo. Although we've outgrownr 0 first office, Klutz galactic"'eodquarters remains in Palo Alto,California, and we're still staffede tirely by real human beings. Fort ose of you who collect missionsto teme nt s , here's ours:

'RITE use would love to hear your commentsegarding this or any of our books.e have many!

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Sc olastic Australia Customer Service.. Box 579, Gosford, NSWAustralia 2250

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T hese a ren 't p ape r to ys . And they're onlytechnically paper airplanes. These are high performa ceb ow-the-competition-away flying paper machines.

e n p lanes in th is boo~ a r e ro r p eop lethey 'v e seen a good pape r p la ne o r two

e re for the hard to impress, the playgrounde ans - the kid at the next

es who thinks he and his plane. get sent to the principal'sI ce first. These are thees that can prove

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MAKE GR.EAT FOLDSGreat planes start with great folding. Take your time and put the paper exactly where it neebe. Perfect folding will save a bad throw, but no throw in the world will save sloppy folding.

EXRCT FOLDSWILL FLY

CHECK SYMMETRY

SLOPPY FOLDSWON'T FLY

Every plane in this book is the same on both sides. The left wing is always a mirror image of the right wing.r rfold your plane so that one side is even the tiniest bit different from the other side, your plane won't flyit flies at all.The golden rule is this: If- you r J a~e a rJ ista ~e , M a ~ eth e eM ct sane Mi sta ~ e o n th e o -rh er sid e.

THIS PLRNE FLIES GREAT THIS PLRNE CRASHESGRE~-

THROW IT ERSYMake your first few throws light and breezy. No marxegood your folding is,we guarantee that your plane'sflight will also be its maiden crash. Once you gethen you an open up and haul off,


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SS,C C, e your plane and . doesn't fly greaL rig t0~ and it

, you fI need to tweak the wings. Af+er e v e r y + h r o w t _

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F ALL ELSE FAILS,OLD ANOTHER

S e planes look perfect but, no matterow much you fuss, they just won't fly.Our advice? Grab another sheet andake a new one.


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EDGE-TO-EDGE, CORNER.-TO-CORNERAlmost every fold in this book is an edge-to-edge, corner-to-corner or edge-to-crease fold. Whenmaking these folds, put each edge or corner precisely where it's supposed to go. Even near-misses ---~are enough of them, will ruin a plane.

CREASE WELLWith every fold, make the crease as sharp and clean asyou can get it. Run your fingernail along the crease toget it flat.The better the crease, the easier thefollowing folds will be and the better the plane will fly.

SMOOSH DOWNPRPER BUBBLESA few folds into a plane, you may see some part of the paperbulging up.We recommend flattening these to make the restof the folds easier. The best way is to use a pencil or pen capand, pressing hard, sweep across the bubbled-up paper.


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01 E O R A L"Dihedral" is engineer-speak for the angle between a plane splane in this book flies best with a positive dihedral. That meansat your plane from the back, the wings and body form a -V- shape.means to paper airplanes is this:

THIS PLANE FLIES TH IS P LANE eRAS ES

~ rs are small flaps in a plane's wings that make the plane go up and down.rplane to fly higher or longer, add up elevators. If it's flying too. ing, like it's on a rollercoaster, then it needs down elevators.P ELEVATOR

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THiESEF LA PSE THE PLANE RISE

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DOWN ELEVATORPINCH AND BEND DOWN. END UP LIKE THIS.

THESE FLAPSMAKE THE PLANE FALL

TO MAKE AN ELEVATO~ P:: c- --= =.=: :EDGE OF A WING, HiTHEN BEND THE PI C EDOWN. MAKE ANOTIiIEROPPOSITE WING.

k just like elevators, but make the plane bank or roll. An aileron in the right wing of a plane) left, while an aileron in the left wing makes it bank (and turn) right. You make them j st Ii e rat. the ends of the wings, not the middle.

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Pick up th i /'and . IS cornerput It near the X


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Getting your plane into the air isn't hard, but getting greaflights one after another can take a little practice. The trick'to figure out what type of plane, you're throwing and how y

want it to fly. Then, give it the launch it needs to get the e.


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t e way a plane is designed, itaturally"like" certain angles andee s but not others. Dart-shapeda es since they're thin and sleek,east throws. Gliders, with theire at shape, prefer slow ones.

or most planes, a II youo know are theseortant) rules:

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y 2 t i S that makeow different from anothereed and angle.

- 8 , o r a +t h r o w i n g 5peSMRLL _ THROWWINGS - FRSTER

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GLIIl)ERS LIKE ITH iSE RNGLES

DR~rrs LIKETHESE RNGLES

STU NT PLA NESLIKE THESEANGLES


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NDOOR VERSUSOUTDOOR F L I G H T

I . . . INDOOR If you're flying indoors, you're best off with 2:'CS

that need calm air but don't need much spitee.Darts and slow gilders work best.

OUTDOOROutside. you'll geL the best flig ts frorr: -~~, '~l""

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N E W ) . . .U ER-"'G~1 'CORNER.

UNFOLD THE LASTFOLDS. IT SHOULDLOOK LIKE THIS:

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BELOW ITM Q K I: S IJ RET 0 L: EUP !=ILL EDGES

Fold the diagonal edge onthe right srdeto the creaseyou made lnste~ '8 .

Repeat on the left side.the creases you acesteps a and 9.

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o r, h Y . a f > a ea n d a Brick

THRUST

FT VE RSUS GRAVITYo ta throw, a dropped piece of paper - even oneooks like an airplane - falls right to the ground.row it and something holds it in the air a little

er.That something is "lift" and it's a force, just likeitv, In flight, lift and gravity play tug-of-war with your

lane. And so long as lift is winning, the plane goesB twhen gravity takes the lead - and it alwayss - your plane has a date with the ground that it

L I F T GRRVITY FORCE

LESS LI FTTHAN GRAVITY

PLAN,S G 'asDOWN

OF ATTACKcline a plane's wings make with the oncoming air is-e "angle of attack." For most planes, the front ofings is higher than the back. So, when you throw theie rush of air hits the bottom of the wing and

~ es off.The bouncing-off air pushes the wing upward,e plane lift.

MORE LIFTTHAN GRAVITY LIFT EQUALTO GRAVITY

EVATORS & AILERONS- a s on the back edge of a wing change the angle ofig air and move the plane. If the flaps go up, air

and goes shooting skyward. This makes theeoge of the wing drop. The angle of attack getso e ngs. e

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y THE ~ -SHAPED I GS?lane is fiying straight, then the lift created by each wing is about the same. But jf one wing is fia-er

;; ,- at ,"ng creates more lift and makes the plane barrel-roll.The reason most paper planes fl y best .-M . gs is that as soon as the plane starts to roll, the now-flatter wing makes more lift than the angled .,...",,_extra lift forces the wing back up, straightening out the plane. With ~ -shaped wings, a small roll ca S 2:

5 E roll and the plane spirals to the ground.

..-V--SH APED WI NGS SELF-CORRECT ....-v-.-SHRPED WINGS SELF-DESTRUCT

ST VERSUSDRRG" and I , I T t control a plane's altitude, stuff engineers call "thrust" and "drag" change its speed.

T ts a Jl'~f o r c e t h a t M a - k e s a n a i r p l a n e g o f - o r w a r d . In metal planes, propellers and jets~ - ust The only thrust a paper plane gets, though, comes from your own arm. Once the plane leaves

":_ gou:en all the thrust it's going to get, which is why paper planes always end up on the ground.

+ fie , = +he r h a n d , is w h a t a i r d o e s t o a p l a n e t o s l o w i t d o w n . The faster a plane--~ more air hits it and the more the air pushes it backwards. And the bigger the wings are, the more air

" re, causing more drag. That's why glider-type paper planes go slower than darts. If a plane kept g . gst to overcome both gravity and drag, it would simply keep going and going and going and going an gS'-g

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QFLYING THE PTERO'PLANE! I Your best {lightswill be hard throws up and' ,

ffom you. Put an elevator in one wing for circlesand corkscrews, and in both wings ( O f " 1 O O a s .


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e tric~ to twea~ingo u r p la n e c or re ctly. .. : :'e - i~ then fil'., one p roD le~ at a ti~ e .

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MAKE THIS-CREASE RIGijl'

, ining up the b:~'tt;QJ1'Ies of the paper .. - -

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Fold the plane in naif fromeft to right. Une r , r p alle ges Per fe-etly.

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10 d e s i g n s th at we tested,and tested, and tested, and tested ...

o Sheets full-color, flig~t-reapaper inside. 20 different des:g""s.

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