1. X-101 Folded Paper Airplane Works best with regular printer paper.

2. Tools and Materials Rubber bands Paperclips Coffee stirrer sticks
Scotch tape
Scissors
Colored pencils
8 ½”x11” 20lb copier paper
8 ½”x11” 64lb card stock

3. Make crisp, accurate, straight folds.
Hamburger Fold
Make crisp, accurate, straight folds.
Hot Dog Fold
Hamburger Fold
Right
Your folds should be symmetrical. One side should look just like the other side.
If your plane is not symmetrical, it may not fly straight. 3

4. If your plane is not symmetrical, it may not fly straight.
Nose Folds
Unfold the hamburger fold and use this center fold as a guide to keep your plane symmetrical.
Your folds should be symmetrical. One side should look just like the other side.
If your plane is not symmetrical, it may not fly straight. 4

5. Make crisp, accurate, straight folds.
Nose Folds
Make crisp, accurate, straight folds.
Get ready to fold leading edges of your wing. 5

6. Make crisp, accurate, straight folds.
Wing Edge Folds
Make crisp, accurate, straight folds.
Fold the leading edge of your right wing.
Fold the leading edge of your left wing. 6

7. Make crisp, accurate, straight folds.
Fuselage Fold
Make crisp, accurate, straight folds. ½”
Fold the right and left wings together. The folds should be on the inside.
Fold the wings back to leave a fuselage about ½” wide. ½” 7

8. Make crisp, accurate, straight folds.
Wing Rudder Folds
Make crisp, accurate, straight folds.
Wing rudders will help your plane fly straight.
Fold right wing rudder.
Fold left wing rudder. 8

9. What happens when the angle of the wings is changed?
Plane Views
Adjust paper clips at various places on your plane to experiment with flight paths.
What happens when the angle of the wings is changed?
Top View
Side View
Front View 9

10. Use paper clips to control the center of gravity of your plane.
Decorate Your Plane
Use paper clips to control the center of gravity of your plane.
See the next slide to add a cockpit and pilot to your plane. One paper clip on the nose of the plane will let you adjust the position on the cockpit and therefore your plane’s center of gravity. 10

11. Build a cockpit with a pilot
Draw cockpit and pilot on paper or in PowerPoint and tape it to the stick or cardboard strip.
Glue a small soft foamie or wrap some tape to the front end so the plane won’t poke your eye out!
Coffee stirrer stick or cardboard strip. 11

12. Hall of Fame Planes 12

13. Make your own decals in PowerPoint
Flying Machines
Make your own decals in PowerPoint
It Goes
It Goes
ail
eathers
ail
eathers
oom
oom
Build-It-Yourself.com

14. Make your own decals in PowerPoint
Flying Machines
Make your own decals in PowerPoint
Build-It-Yourself.com

15. Make your own decals in PowerPoint
Flying Machines
Make your own decals in PowerPoint
Build-It-Yourself.com

16. Make your own decals in PowerPoint
Flying Machines
Make your own decals in PowerPoint
Build-It-Yourself.com

17. Air Show Competitions: Best looking. Furthest distance. Most accurate.
Longest flight time. 17

18. Tips for flying well
You will learn the most about airplane design if you take the time to test and edit your inventions.
To get this design to work well, you need to add quite a bit or weight to the front end.  This can be done with paper clips or a coffee stirrer stick with tape or rubber bands on the end.
When finding the proper center of gravity to make your plane glide well, just release it. Do not throw it.  The speed may cause your plane to react more to wing and fin imperfections than to the center of gravity.  After you get your plane to glide well, then it should fly better when you throw it.
If at any point during the flight the tail dips or the nose dips, then your center of gravity needs to be adjusted.
‘Professional’ paper airplane designers may test a plane’s balance or center of gravity MANY times before they get it the way they want it. 18