Tailed Plane

This fun paper glider flies well and has a unique look with a long tail.

Tailed Plane

This fun paper glider flies well and has a unique look with a long tail.

A unique design that uses one piece of paper, but cuts it into two pieces that you put back together to make one paper airplane.

Medium difficulty Letter & A4 Paper Requires scissors Distance Time aloft Measurements

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Paper Airplane Folding Instructions

1. Fold the paper diagonally as shown. Cut off the bottom piece to make a square. Save the bottom piece to use later.

2. Fold the left corner down to the opposite corner and unfold to create an 'x' crease.

3. Next, accordion fold the sides in to create a triangle shape.

4. Fold both bottom corners up to the top point.

5. Take the extra piece that you cut off earlier and fold the top corners to the center to form an arrow.

6. Insert the arrow all the way into the plane's body.

7. Next, fold the tip of the airplane down to secure the inner arrow.

8. Finally, tuck both center flaps into the top piece and then slightly crease the plane in half.

Final Paper Airplane Design

To throw this paper airplane, pinch the front from underneath until you get a good grip. The two sides will be at around 90 degrees to each other when you do this. Throw with medium force and use small adjustments of the tail to get it to fly level and straight. This glider tends to loop in circles instead of flying straight.

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These beautiful, easy to follow, paper airplane folding instructions can be downloaded and printed as many times as you want. Simply follow the printed instructions and fold along the indicated lines to make a perfect paper airplane, every time.

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Number of Folds	8

Convert to Imperial	Letter Paper
Length The distance from nose to tail	18.9 cm
Wingspan The longest distance from wingtip to wingtip	21.7 cm
Wing Chord The average length of the wing, from front to back	5.1 cm
Wing Area The area of all wing surfaces	110.1 cm²
Wing Loading The averaged weight carried by the wings	417.7 g/m²

The Wing Loading is how much of the paper airplane's weight is being lifted by each unit area of the wing's surface. In general, an airplane with a lower wing loading will glider better. A standard piece of 75gsm printer paper is used for all of these measurements across the website.

References

• The Worlds Greatest Paper Airplane and Toy Book

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• Fold'N Fly Paper Airplane Book

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