How To Make The Hawk Paper Airplane

Fast, long range, lightweight and simple, the Hawk is a great little paper airplane. This plane can work as a great sky cruiser with its excellent stability and quick speed. The Hawk exemplifies how simplicity can make performance greater--owing to the reduction of weight as a result of the omission of spars. To my knowledge, this is the first "drone" paper airplane on Instructables with a mid wing.

The Hawk is essentially an advanced development of the smaller YD140-1 prototype, which I designed in April 2011. Because the YD140-1 was outperformed by the Wasp, I chose not to publish an instructable on it. However, after several months of seeing no comparable designs on Instructables, I decided a plane with a mid-mounted wing was needed here. Because I think skids should be included if possible, I reapproached the primary concept of the original prototype with the difference that the new airplane (which became the Hawk) have a longer range and skids. Eventually, after a few calculations, the Hawk was prototyped and found to be a success. After some flight testing, it proved itself worthy of being made in an instructable, and now here it is.


TAA USAF Designation: D154-1

Step 1 Materials

Required:
1 Piece of 8 by 10.5 inch graph paper (4 boxes per inch)
Tape
Pencil
Stapler
Ruler
Scissors

Comments

[Aerofan]

This worked awesome. thanks :]