helenbacque
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- Central Florida
I just did one to see if I remembered the folds. It worked!
Can you still fold and launch a paper airplane?
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Purwell
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The classic dart shape one yes, but not the fancy ones.
Paco Dennis
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Yep, a couple different kinds. Mine are so good, I have to chase some of them down! 
DaveA
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Same here although I'm not sure that I even made a paper hat?
Paladin1950
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I gave up when I was still in elementary school. Mine always crashed and burned.
VintageBetter
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Yes I can. When I subbed sometimes, if we had extra time, I would teach this to 2nd and 3rd graders. Sometimes 4th too if they were not like age 10 going on 16. Some 10-year-olds can already be getting pretty cynical about life. They will think paper planes are lame and stupid.
But with the young kids, it's a little miracle when a teacher can show then how to make a flying toy out of a piece of humble paper. I would also teach how to make an origami paper cup. Useful, but not as fun as a plane.
But with the young kids, it's a little miracle when a teacher can show then how to make a flying toy out of a piece of humble paper. I would also teach how to make an origami paper cup. Useful, but not as fun as a plane.
Lewkat
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- New Jersey, USA
Yes, I can.
George1959
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You should have become a test pilot. The planes you could touch down safely would be the best.
I made the ones like the picture DebraMae posted. I used to play around at the back end cutting out flaps to give it more lift. But if they weren't perfectly even, it would make it turn one way or the other.
A real easy helicopter one is just take a strip of paper and cut the top part in half and bend them and kind of twist them like airplane wings, and put a paper clip or something on the bottom to give it some weight and drop it out of a high window.
Kind of like those maple leaf seeds that come spinning down.
A real easy helicopter one is just take a strip of paper and cut the top part in half and bend them and kind of twist them like airplane wings, and put a paper clip or something on the bottom to give it some weight and drop it out of a high window.
Kind of like those maple leaf seeds that come spinning down.
PeppermintPatty
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I can do the simple airplane like this one. My brothers could make really fancy airplanes with many more folds.
Aunt Mavis
I have met the enemy and he is us. Pogo
Yes. Iāll never forget my one and only design.
Murrmurr
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The classics, yes.
My first playground fight was over a paper airplane. The other kid made one where you tear part of the wings and fold it so they form kind of an air-foil. I was kind of into it until he mocked my classic design. I wasn't having that, so I pushed the little sucker and he fell on his butt. Imagine my delight when he got back on his feet, dukes-up and screaming profanities at me, because from my perspective, that totally justified the initial assault as well as the subsequent beat-down.
Thing is, my plane far out-distanced his. Even so, I would have considered it a wash if his plane did loop-de-loops or something, but it just nose-dived onto the asphalt. Twice.
He couldn't handle the humiliation. Probly typical for a 5yr-old, but he didn't have to be a foul-mouthed little arsehole about it.
Good times.
My first playground fight was over a paper airplane. The other kid made one where you tear part of the wings and fold it so they form kind of an air-foil. I was kind of into it until he mocked my classic design. I wasn't having that, so I pushed the little sucker and he fell on his butt. Imagine my delight when he got back on his feet, dukes-up and screaming profanities at me, because from my perspective, that totally justified the initial assault as well as the subsequent beat-down.
Thing is, my plane far out-distanced his. Even so, I would have considered it a wash if his plane did loop-de-loops or something, but it just nose-dived onto the asphalt. Twice.
He couldn't handle the humiliation. Probly typical for a 5yr-old, but he didn't have to be a foul-mouthed little arsehole about it.
Good times.
Sadly, my paper-airplane making skills have eroded from decades of inactivity. My father did a lot of origami, and could make this bird with wings that could flap when you pulled the tail. Kids today are more into making spitballs, I believeā¦that is, when not glued to their cell phonesā¦ 
