Trooper

A compact and realistic looking paper airplane that resembles a fighter jet.

Trooper

A compact and realistic looking paper airplane that resembles a fighter jet.

This small dart like paper plane is a great long-distance flyer.

Medium difficulty Letter & A4 Paper Distance Measurements

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Paper Airplane Folding Instructions

1. Holding the paper vertically, fold the top down to the bottom and then fold it in half again from left to right.

2. Unfold the horizontal fold and then fold the top two corners to the center.

3. Unfold all the way and then accordion fold the sides in.

4. Fold the top layer of the right flap all the way over to the left side. Then take the remaining flap on the right side and fold it to the center.

5. There are 3 layers on the left now. Grab the top layer and fold to the center.

6. Take these two folded flaps and fold them up in opposite directions as shown.

7. Repeat steps 4 and 5 with the left side.

8. Now fold the flaps up in opposite directions, like in step 6.

9. Fold the airplane in half.

10. Fold the wings out as shown. The edge of the front part of the wing should touch the bottom of the body of the airplane.

11. Finally, fold the top layer of wings up.

Final Paper Airplane Design

Use a tiny bit of tape to keep the paper airplane together while flying. For maximum distance, throw as hard as you can at a 45 degree upward angle.

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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	11
Distance Flown Average Distance Thrown by a 10yr old	33.2 ft / 10.1 m

Convert to Imperial	Letter Paper
Length The distance from nose to tail	16.5 cm
Wingspan The longest distance from wingtip to wingtip	10.5 cm
Wing Chord The average length of the wing, from front to back	7.3 cm
Wing Area The area of all wing surfaces	76.3 cm²
Wing Loading The averaged weight carried by the wings	603.2 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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