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How To Make The Skynaut Paper Airplane

How To Make The Skynaut Paper Airplane
A long range, fast, compact and simple paper airplane the Skynaut can work as a trainer, aerial demonstrator or aerobatic aircraft. This plane has a very small wingspan of 9 cm.


I designed the Skynaut as a low difficulty trainer version of the highly-successful Scout paper airplane. In this design, I eliminated the parasol wing arrangement to reduce drag and increase potential speed.



TAA USAF Designation: D133-1
 
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Step 1Materials

Materials
Required:
1 Piece of 8 by 10.5 inch graph paper
Tape
Scissors
Ruler
Pencil
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3 comments
Feb 6, 2011. 3:31 PMpmet says:
Great design! I didnt have graph paper, so I substituted one square for 2mm. The resulting gliders flew pretty well for their size. By the third glider I wanted to try something new, and came up with a jet-powered combat version of your glider. Its called the D133-1F Firenaut. Thanks again for the Instructable!
Feb 10, 2011. 7:38 PMRevan_Taros says:
Looks like a predator UAV.

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Author:OrigamiAirEnforcer(The Paper Airplane Wiki)
I am someone who mass produces paper airplanes and am always developing new designs.