HOW HARD CAN IT BE… TO BUILD BETTER PAPER PLANES

To be top flight, you need to put the hours in

As bored kids everywhere know, making a paper plane is easy. But making a really good one requires both patience and some precise engineering. Get into the fold. The plane that made the longest flight record (from an A4 sheet of paper) took more than 20 minutes to fold. See the designs at foldnfly.com for inspiration, tagged with attributes and difficulty levels. Don't be a drag: you want your paper to be as smooth and the folds as crisp as possible. Hold up your plane. Is it in line? Is it symmetrical? Wonky folding will throw it off course. Go with the micro: if you tweak nose or wings, make the changes very small. And carefully note the effects. The current distance record holders spent over 400 hours on adjustments (and were also…

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The Simple Things (Digital) - 1 Issue, September 2023

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