Kids Paper Airplane Book

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.

**Winner of the 2016 Creative Child Magazine Product of the Year Award** Kids will love to fold and fly these sturdy, aerodynamic paper airplanes! In this clever origami book with folding papers, paper airplane expert Andrew Dewar presents his ultimate collection of easy-to-fold, high-performance planes for kids who are fascinated by aviation, technology, or origami. These planes are brightly colored and designed to fly beautifully every time. Some of the exciting designs include: The intimidating Hammerhead The futuristic Space Cruiser The hilariously named Belly Button And many more! The book opens with a fascinating introduction to the engineering principles of flight, so kids can learn about the forces that enable a plane to fly and affect the performance of their airplane designs. They'll have fun putting the paper planes through their paces: doing loops, barrel rolls, glides and dives. The sky is the limit once they understand how planes interact with the atmosphere! This paper airplane book contains: 12 innovative designs 48 printable paper airplane models Detailed instructions for each paper plane Printed folding lines for perfect folds Colorful and realistic designs Become a tried-and-true aviator with this paper airplane kit. Designed for both kids and kids-at-heart, the whole family will enjoy seeing their projects come to life!

Mia and Ben are the very best of friends. They live side by side at the edge of a great, wide lake and together they sail, and swing, and sing. But the thing they love the most is making paper planes. They dream of one day being able to make a plane that will fly all the way across the lake, and their planes become more and more intricate... But one day: terrible news. Ben's family are moving far, far away. How can Mia and Ben stay best friends if they are so far apart? And how will they ever realise their dream of making a plane that can fly across their lake? Find out in this moving, lyrical story of friendship and flight.

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.

Let your creativity soar with paper airplanes--folding and flying fun for kids ages 6-9 Whoosh! Prepare for takeoff--you're in for hours of high-flying, folding fun with these paper airplanes! Organized by airplane type and level of difficulty, this book is packed with 15 unique paper airplane designs for dart planes, wide-winged glider planes, and exciting stunt planes. Get a crash course in airplane folding with step-by-step instructions and diagrams. Tear out and color the specially designed included paper, then fold your airplanes using the patterns on the paper to help you. Find hands-on help with how to launch each type of paper airplane, plus troubleshooting tips for problem planes. This kid-friendly book of paper airplanes includes: Pilot in training--Simple instructions and diagrams help you level up your folding and flying skills as you progress from an easy Classic Dart Plane to an impressive Around the World Loop Plane. Artistic airplanes--Make each plane a work of art by coloring it in, and then fold along the lines to create your own fleet! Tips and techniques--Discover the best way to throw each of these amazing airplanes, what parts make up planes and how they fly, and tips on how to give your planes an extra boost. Have a blast folding and flying your very own fleet of airplanes with The Awesome Paper Airplane Book for Kids.

Presents step-by-step instructions for folding twenty different kinds of paper airplanes and provides illustrated papers for 112 planes.

Contains complete instructions on the art of paper airplane folding.

The creators of The World Record Paper Airplane Book devise twelve small-scale models, decorated with original full-color graphics, for making seventy-four airplanes, using simple folding instructions in a handy pocket guide. Original. 75,000 first printing.

Contains instructions for creating accurate paper replicas of twelve historically important planes.

Paper airplanes as serious science? No longer shamefully relegated to the back rows of elementary-school sports stadiums, paper airplanes come into their own with this amusing -- and instructive -- book. The Great International Paper Airplane Book documents the proceedings of the first (and possibly only) International Paper Airplane Competition conducted by Scientific American. In addition to the behind-the-scenes story and official records of the Competition, readers will discover intriguing mini-essays on the historical, aesthetic, technological, and folkloric aspects of the paper airplane and on its startling implications for the future of aviation. Best of all, there are dozens of cut-fold-and-fly-them-yourself planes to experiment with. Combining real science with outright fun, this book appeals to paper airplane enthusiasts and would-be aviators of every age.