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Current Guinness World Record Holder:
paper aircraft distance: 226 feet, 10 inches (69.14m)

    

The folding is easy, but the
taping willtake some time.
Skill Level ..

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3L4.

Getting Started

Tape: 25mm wide

   
   
 
    
   
   
   
   
 
    
 
    
   
   
 
    
 
 
 
 




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Sharp Scissors

Hobby blade or chopstick
for transferring tape

Ruler with millimeters
Folding Tool
Clip for holding the plane

Pre-cut measuring tool for
creating 25x30 mm piece
oftape

Protractor to create
dihedral measuring tool

Cardboard dihedral tool
created using the
protractor. One side has
a 165 degree angle, and
the at ..;ass -33 degree angJe.

Use an old shaving kit

holder for your main

tools. The angle gauge

can stay with your

papen

If you don?t have A4, remove 19mm from one side of I 

a US letter size piece so that the paper looks taller.
26 b paper is the closest in thickness and weight.

I use Conqueror CX22, Diamond White, 100gsm
A4 size paper for making world record planes.

 

 

 

Suzanne Steps

 

   

Make a diagonal fold. Line up Unfo d step 1 
the top with the left side. 
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Make a diagonal fold the Unfold step 3

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Suzanne Steps

 

 

 

:3 . Line up the left edge Line up the right side
With the diagonal crease. with the diagonal crease.

Fold across the point where The top layer creases should
the diagonal creases cross. line up with the bottom layer.
Follow the existing creases.

 

    
 
  
      
 

 

 

Suzanne Steps

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Fold the plane in half. The
mountain fold means you ?ip it
over ?rst, and then fold in half.

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Make the wing fold. It?s like
The Phoenix. The next steps
show another way to get there.

 

 

Rotate it so that the center crease is
on the bottom.

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Position the creased edge against 
the center crease. Don?t Fold.

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Keep moving the wing do wn
until the white triangle is gone.

 

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Suzanne Steps

Make the other wing match.

Keep pulling the wing down
until the little triangle is gone.

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Note 3,4,5, 15 &16 are wider strips.
3,4 5 all come from one strip.

Apply tape strips

 

 

 

 

Suzanne Steps

 
  
    
 

Use your dihedral gauges

to set the angle at the nose
at 165 degrees. At mid-wing
155 degrees.

 

 
     
 

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record holder.

       

 
   
 

 
     

     
    
 

    

 



Get the plane ?ying straight, and then work up to a fast throw, Kee in mind that the
faster the p15h- f?ies theLCIOSer to the nose your adJUStments 2 . fem?
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the plane.

    

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Use these tips for
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- 1/The Bat Plane flaps its wings as it ?ies. That?s enough
to make it worth learning.

There?s a move near the 
start that collapses the 
layers together. That?s the 
hardest part of the folding. 3

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Bat Plane Steps

 

 

 

Make a diagonal fold corner to Unf0 d step 1
corner. It?s the longest fold you
can make.

 

Make a diagonal fold the Unfold step 3
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Bat Plane Steps

 

 

      

Flip the page over. Fold the page in half.

Unfold step 6, and stand up the Press down where all the creases
page making along tunnel. meet, until the center ?pops?.

    
    

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Bring the sides in and the top down.

 

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Bat Plane Steps

   

Fold along where the layer ends.

 

Fold the point to the top.

10,11,12 repeat for this side 14
{f3} starting with moving the ?ap

to the right, Fold the corner to the top.

 

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Bat Plane Steps

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Fold the corner up, leaving
about a third unfolded. About
half of the new triangle will be
above the top edge.

 

Unfold

 

Fold the plane in half.

There?s a natural break in the
layers. Make the crease there.


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Bat Plane Steps

  
  

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Unfold step 23 Make a pinch.

  

and fold over about
a quarter inch.

 
 
 

 

 

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I?m always asked, ?What?s your favorite plane?? My
answer is ?for what?? This is my favorite stunt plane.

It?s challenging to fold, and
the ?ying is phenomenal.

The Boomerang circles either
direction and loops!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Boomerang Steps

 

  
 

Mark the half way point of Make a pinch at the half

 

the crease from step 1 way point between the
with a pinch. Bend one step 2 pinch and the left
)3 end of the creased edge to side.
meet the other end and
5.51 Start with a short side up. press (or pinch) the
Fold the page in half. center ?at.
Make a fold from the
pinch to the upper left Fold the forward ?ap
7?34: corner. Squash this corner. behind

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just short of the lower

1 Fold the upper corner
corner. 

    

This step is preparation for putting the
>Gorner into the pocket fromed by the
s_ a ina?Sh fold from?step 5. In addition
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leave 3' be}? ??lling?! ?fe wise:
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Boomerang I Steps

 

The bottom image is zoomed in.
The crease follows the shape of
the pocket underneath. Make the
crease just to the inside of the
pocket so it will Look at the
next step.

Two things to notice: The point
formed by step 8 will ?t inside the
pocket formed by steps 5-6, and
we?re allowing the paper to stay
curved until after the point goes
into the pocket.

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Once 

peck curved p21r2.

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marked crease. 

 

 

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Note where the raw corner
ended up: just touching the
center crease.

Repeat steps 7?11 for the
other side.

 

 

 

 

Fold "the
plane in
half.

Boomerang Steps

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Use the corners as guides
for this crease, on both
sides.

 

Step 14 complete. Now
?ip the plane over.

 

Push on the pocket to
start squashing the
whole front. Let the
sides move outward.

Fold the corner over to
line up with the center
crease. The crease goes
right where the layers
end.

Make the wing crease

so it just cuts the tip

\of the layer u?Trom
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to see the result.

 

 

 

 

 

Boomerang I Steps

  
 
      
 
  

 

 

The winglet should be
parallel with the wing
crease. The raw corner
should not go past the
layered part.

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Notice just a sliver of the
triangle gets folded
over.

         

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Skill Level/



 

 

 

 

 



 

It ?ies out, ?ips over, and ?ies back upside down.
That?s weird and wonderful.

Yes, it?s a folding challenge.
If you made it through the
Boomerang I, you can do this.

 

 

 

 

Boomerang l  Steps

?53" Mark the center of the Fold the left edge to the
step 1 crease with a pinch. pinch mark.

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Start with a short side up.
Fold the page in half.

    

 

 

 

 

 


The crease starts at the 
upper left corner. The
marked corner ends up Squash the ?ap. Open
touching the crease from the layers and the
.c step 3 point to the center.
Unfold step 3
2 - 
Start to narrow the .
point to ?t into the 
pocket. -
. . - crease
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t; fallow the ?r 335 
at?? below. 
Fold the 'frwr?: h= of the Bring the marked comer
Sh behind. down to Just short of the
marked comer of the 
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Boomerang ll Steps

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With the curved layer 
?attened, now fold up

the ?ap using the corners Press on the front and

as natural limits. Of
course, you have to do
9-11 to the other side.

let the sides move
outward. It?s like a big
squash fold for the front
of the plane.

 

The top image shows the
corner on top of the pocket.
The middle shows the start
of tucking the coner into
the pocket. The bottom
image is the corner in

 

there. Only now can Fold the creased edges Fold these small ?aps
you ?atten the warped over'to meet the underneath. It?s easier
layer. mvusnble layers. I. usually to fold them over to
rub my thumbnail along meet the creased edge
the edge 0f the h'dde? ?rst, and then reverse

.1. ?Kiri; ?vlayer to create

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Boomerang ll Steps

 

 

Start the wing crease a
few millimeters above the
nose. The marked layer
will touch the corner of
the tail.

   

  
    
   
 
  

Fold the plane in half.
Notice that I?m using the
mountain fold here.

 

The winglet crease is
parallel to the wing crease.

The corner of the wing
. should be just short of the

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Make the other
winglet match.

Fold the other

wing down.
Notice the downward bend

at the nose. I simply
pinch the layers down.
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