Record Breaking Paper Airplanes Kit 48 Fold-Up Planes 16 High-Performance Designs Full-Color Instruction Book

Record Breaking Paper Airplanes Kit : 48 Fold-Up Planes, 16 High-Performance Designs Full-Color Instruction Book
ISBN: 9784805313640
Publication Date: 3 May 2017

Make paper airplanes based on the fastest, longest-flying planes in the world!

Paper airplane expert Andrew Dewar presents this new collection of 16 original high-performance paper airplanes. These planes are incredibly easy to fold, and designed to push the envelope in terms of time aloft and distance thrownubased on principles exploited by record-breaking paper airplane experts such as Ken Blackburn, Michael Collins and Takuo Toda.

The book opens with the history of paper airplane record-setters, followed by a fascinating primer to the principles of flight so kids can learn about the forces that enable a plane to fly and the properties that affect the duration and distance of their flights. They'll have fun coaxing better and better performances out of these optimized designs. The sky is the limit once they understand how planes actually work!

Each paper plane has simple folding instructions and corresponding custom folding papers with folding lines printed right on the sheets. Each plane can be folded up in just a few moments, so kids can start shattering records of their own right away!

This paper airplanes kit includes:

• A full-color, 64-page book
• Easy, step-by-step instructions
• 16 unique designs
• 48 full-color airplane folding sheets

About the Author

Andrew Dewar was born in Toronto, Ontario, and graduated from Ryerson Polytechnic Institute (B.A. Journalism) and University of Toronto (M.A. Japanese Studies, Library and Information Science) before moving to Japan in 1988. After completing his doctoral studies in library science at Keio University, he joined the faculty of a junior college in Japan. Soon after arriving in Japan he redis...