King Bee

This acrobatic paper airplane looks like a bee and darts around like one too.

King Bee

This acrobatic paper airplane looks like a bee and darts around like one too.

If you throw this paper plane at the right angle, it will wiggle back and forth like a bee hunting for flowers.

Medium difficulty Letter & A4 Paper Requires scissors Acrobatic Measurements

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Paper Airplane Folding Instructions

1. Fold the corners down to each side and unfold.

2. Fold the top down so the three creases line up.

3. Open up the sheet and accordion fold the sides in.

4. Fold both edges of the triangle to the center (top layer only).

5. Fold the top back to meet the bottom edge of the other side. If you are using A4 size paper, stop about 2cm short of the bottom edge.

6. Fold up both middle flaps up.

7. Fold plane in half away from you.

8. Fold down one wing as shown and then repeat with the other.

9. If you want, fold up the tips of both wings and/or cut two aileron slits on the back of each wing.

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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	9
Distance Flown Average Distance Thrown by a 10yr old	20.2 ft / 6.1 m
Time Aloft Average Time Aloft Thrown by a 10yr old	1.7 sec

Convert to Imperial	Letter Paper
Length The distance from nose to tail	10.8 cm
Wingspan The longest distance from wingtip to wingtip	14.6 cm
Wing Chord The average length of the wing, from front to back	8.7 cm
Wing Area The area of all wing surfaces	127.3 cm²
Wing Loading The averaged weight carried by the wings	361.4 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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