Vulture

A small and fast flying paper plane.

Vulture

A small and fast flying paper plane.

This compact paper airplane makes up for its size with speed. Throw it hard and watch it sail.

Hard difficulty Letter & A4 Paper Distance Time aloft Measurements

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Paper Airplane Folding Instructions

1. Fold the sheet in half vertically.

2. Open the sheet back up and fold in half horizontally.

3. With the folded paper held with the opening on the bottom, fold both left and right edges to the center.

4. Open the last two folds and then fold the top corner down to the first crease.

5. Repeat with the other side.

6. Now, fold the top right edge down to the center line.

7. Repeat with the left side.

8. Open those last steps back up and accordion fold the right side in.

9. Repeat with the other side.

10. Take the top layer of both outer edges and line them up with the diagonal creases.

11. Fold them in again along the diagonal creases.

12. Flip the plane around and repeat steps 10 and 11 on this side.

13. Fold the tip about an inch (2.5cm) down as shown.

14. Now, fold the plane in half towards you.

15. Fold down one wing. The body will be about 0.5 inch (1.25cm) tall.

16. Repeat with the other side.

17. Finally, fold the tail fins up as shown.

Final Paper Airplane Design

In our testing, this plane liked to fly in a big fast boomerang loop back to us. Try adjusting the tail fins, and you can get this design to do a few other tricks.

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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	17

Convert to Imperial	Letter Paper
Length The distance from nose to tail	12.7 cm
Wingspan The longest distance from wingtip to wingtip	13.5 cm
Wing Chord The average length of the wing, from front to back	5.8 cm
Wing Area The area of all wing surfaces	78.9 cm²
Wing Loading The averaged weight carried by the wings	583 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.

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