This complete guide to folding ten paper airplanes features step-by-step illustrations, along with trimming and tweaking tips that present basic principles of flight. Includes forty sheets of flight-tested, ready-to-fold paper, printed on both sides in a variety of twenty colorful patterns.

"...projects, based on historical prototypes, are very detailed, and the finished products are colorful and airworthy."--Library Journal With nothing more than paper, rules, pencil, scissors, glue, and this all-color extravaganza of super fliers, construct 18 different planes that really zip through the air-and tell the story of modern flight. Start with the Aero Bat, modeled after the first, birdlike planes developed a century ago. Work up to the biplane, the design the Wright brothers used, and progress to the SST Concept, a model so futuristic it's based on a plane that hasn't yet been built. Each flier has historical, technical, and scientific background, detailed diagrams and instructions, and a full-color photograph that offers decorating suggestions. It's fun, it's hands-on, and it makes time really FLY!

Provides information on the principles of aerodynamics, suggestions for designing airplanes, and instructions for folding paper planes and doing stunts and playing games with them.

Follow directions on folding paper and no glue nor scissors nor tape will be needed to make many kinds of paper airplanes.

"Provides instructions and diagrams for making a variety of traditional paper airplanes"--Provided by publisher.

18 Models--each named for a bird--and instructions how to make them.