AFS Paper Airplanes 2026 Edition: Incredible Designs You Can Make at Home - Couverture souple

SCHARHAG, ANDREW F

Couverture souple

ISBN 13 : 9798998241604

Editeur : Andrew F. Scharhag, 2026

Synopsis

Six paper airplanes that are engineered, not just folded.

Most paper airplanes are folded in ten seconds and forgotten in twenty. The six aircraft in this book are thoughtfully designed for hours of enjoyment. Each is built around an open "M" or "W" fuselage that stiffens the airframe, widens the wing, and channels air down the plane's length. With a bit of practice, you can hit targets from across the room. Or, take them outside, and they can climb higher than a two-story building, level off, and settle into the long, slow, almost piloted inspirational glide

The squadron

• P11 Eagle — the most forgiving design here, and the best place to start. Taped twin tails hold a consistent line throw after throw.
• P12 Raptor — extra wing area for more lift, with flaps set near the balance point for gentle, precise trim.
• P13 Spartan — a high-wing cargo layout. The body hangs below the wing the way a bird's does: stable, with soft turns.
• P14 Skymaster — an inverted fuselage and joined tail, trading a little stiffness for a lot of control.
• P15 Manta — no tail at all; the fuselage does the stabilizing. The hardest plane here to trim, and the most satisfying when it comes right.
• P16 NASP — no fuselage either. One flat wing, twin fins, the smallest frontal area in the book, and the fastest, farthest flights.

Everything you need is in the book

Full-size templates for all six aircraft are printed at the back, ready to cut out or photocopy. Beyond that: scissors, clear tape, and a paper clip. Every plane starts from half a sheet of ordinary letter paper.

Numbered, illustrated steps walk through each build fold by fold, with a diagram beside every instruction. A preflight checklist gets the first throw right. A fine-tuning guide then works backward from what the plane is doing wrong — stalling, diving, rolling into a spiral — to the surface you need to bend to fix it.

And the aerodynamics behind it

An opening chapter explains what actually holds a folded sheet of paper in the air: the four forces, how a flat wing makes lift by turning the air, why the balance point belongs ahead of the center of lift, what dihedral does when a gust drops a wing, and how one bent flap rotates an entire airplane. The diagrams are newly drawn for this edition, projected from the author's own CAD model of the aircraft, and built to show the mechanism rather than simply label the parts.

These designs are meant to be taken apart. Put the nose of one plane on the tail of another. The closing chapter is an invitation to stop following instructions and start designing, and three flying games are included for anyone who would rather compete than engineer.

The second edition of AFS Paper Airplanes, first published in 2013. Revised throughout, with rebuilt flight diagrams and an expanded chapter on the aerodynamics of paper flight.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Andrew F. Scharhag
• Date d'édition: 2026
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 13: 9798998241604
• Reliure: Taschenbuch
• Nombre de pages: 124
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible