Light Spinner

An acrobatic paper airplane design that will corkscrew through the air.

Light Spinner

An acrobatic paper airplane design that will corkscrew through the air.

As this paper plane makes wide spirals through the air imagine what it would be like if you were sitting inside.

Medium difficulty Letter & A4 Paper Distance Acrobatic Measurements

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Paper Airplane Folding Instructions

1. Fold the top right corner to the left side.

2. Open the sheet back up and repeat the same step with the left corner.

3. Open the sheet back up and accordion fold both sides in so it looks like this.

4. Next, fold the top point down to the middle edge.

5. Fold both triangle flaps into the center.

6. Take each triangle flap, fold them up and tuck them into the previously folded top triangle.

7. Fold the plane in half with the triangle on the outside.

8. Fold out both wings about 1 inch (2.5cm) from the center.

9. Finally, fold out the wing flaps in opposite directions, one up and one down.

Final Paper Airplane Design

The wing flaps are folded in opposite directions. This will cause this paper plane to spiral through the air like a corkscrew. Adjust the wing angles to modify the size of the spiral.

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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	13
Distance Flown Average Distance Thrown by a 10yr old	22.8 ft / 7 m
Time Aloft Average Time Aloft Thrown by a 10yr old	2.4 sec

Convert to Imperial	Letter Paper
Length The distance from nose to tail	11.7 cm
Wingspan The longest distance from wingtip to wingtip	10.8 cm
Wing Chord The average length of the wing, from front to back	11.1 cm
Wing Area The area of all wing surfaces	119.5 cm²
Wing Loading The averaged weight carried by the wings	384.8 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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