Zip Dart

If you are looking for speed and distance, this zippy dart is a great option.

Zip Dart

If you are looking for speed and distance, this zippy dart is a great option.

The thin body and front stabilizing wings allows it to quickly zip through the air and travel long distances.

Hard difficulty Letter & A4 Paper Distance Time aloft Measurements

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Paper Airplane Folding Instructions

1. Fold the corner down to the other side of the paper.

2. Unfold and repeat with the other corner. Then unfold again.

3. Accordion fold the sides inside using the creases made in the previous steps.

4. Fold the top layer of the side corners up to the top.

5. Take both outer edges and fold them to the center. Be sure they are tucked underneath the diamond shape.

6. Fold the paper plane in half.

7. Fold one wing down from the nose of the plane to the center of the tail. Repeat with the other side.

8. Fold down the front mini-wings to complete this design.

Final Paper Airplane Design

You can play around with the angle of the front stabilizing wings to adjust the flight characteristics of this airplane.

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Printable Folding Instructions

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
Distance Flown Average Distance Thrown by a 10yr old	30 ft / 9.1 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	20.3 cm
Wingspan The longest distance from wingtip to wingtip	7.6 cm
Wing Chord The average length of the wing, from front to back	12.3 cm
Wing Area The area of all wing surfaces	93.4 cm²
Wing Loading The averaged weight carried by the wings	492.4 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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