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Ultimate Paper Airplanes

Welcome to Instructables eBook, Ultimate Paper Airplanes! 

Paper airplanes are beloved for a reason:  they're cheap, easy, and awesome. You can create a wide range of styles and designs, all from a simple sheet of paper. From complex designs resembling origami to the most simple airplane shapes, you can find them on Instructables! 

The Instructables editors have chosen some of our best paper airplane projects to educate and inspire you to make great things with easily-available tools.

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Aug 5, 2011. 4:04 PMmunkyking says:
Anyone interested in the design that sent me across the world to Austria for the Red Bull Paper Wings Competition? I threw this airplane 161.5 feet with strict rules. Maybe I will share if they let me be a full time member of the website for free. Or reply to this post and convince me why i need to share this design.
Jan 24, 2012. 4:17 PMmunkyking says:
http://www.instructables.com/id/Red-Bull-Paper-Wings-USA-Winner-2005/
Jan 24, 2012. 9:44 AMtorok says:
I am willing to send you money if you share this design with me, although you would make paper airplane lovers(like me) everywhere extremely happy if you post this on this site, and yes, i am so interested in this design that my curiosity will probably kill me
Feb 27, 2012. 12:10 AMjarvallmighty says:
Really? If he did what he claims look it up and copy and try, try again till you get it right. Send money....wow! If you really do that and he's looking that hard for a freebie from this site I would be concerned myself. If he was a true fan of anything aeronatic and upset about not getting a real contract from a contest than he needs to rethink his spare time. Any thing can be re-created under the laws of physics. If it happened once it can be done again, Great luck in your quest and keep the cash for REAL suppies and needs. Sorry if I broke the be nice rule. Thinkers not Beggers!
Feb 27, 2012. 3:46 PMmunkyking says:
No Worries it can be done again. I consistently can throw this design 120 feet. Just once it went 161.5 feet when it counted. I think it could go further if you had the right person throw it. No I am not trying to get a contract or money. I just want to see the record broken again in my lifetime. be innovative out there. I think I may re-do the instructable so it is easier to read. People don't click on the "view all steps button and then can't see the entire design. It may take a few days I have to find the right pictures again. Maybe I will even include a few pictures of the contest there in Red Bull's Hangar-7 in Salzburg Austria
Sep 9, 2011. 3:46 PMevindrews says:
man, If you post that (if your telling the truth) you will probably get a visit from the president of united states.
Aug 7, 2011. 4:00 PMMikeorelse says:
Yeah, no. You're lying. It's extremely obvious.
Aug 7, 2011. 3:35 PMI3uckwheat says:
POST WTF WHAT KIND OF AIRPLANE CAN DO THAT???? And how did you throw it?
Aug 17, 2011. 8:00 PMMauigerbil says:
Troll science, my friend, troll science..
Aug 19, 2011. 9:23 AMI3uckwheat says:
umm.. i was counter trolling... (or trying to)
Aug 7, 2011. 10:43 AMking kolton9 says:
Dude, that just might be a world record, you have to share it. You will get a crapload of views.
Oct 1, 2011. 10:31 AMnerd97 says:
I have seen nearly ALL of these planes before, and two are almost the EXACT same thing!!
Oct 13, 2011. 5:39 PMOrigamiAirEnforcer says:
You have seen my airplanes elsewhere...?
Oct 14, 2011. 1:21 PMnerd97 says:
I do believe that i've seen the banshee and the skyknight before. By the way the ones that are the same are the ones made by sodiggercpl and dyiguy.
Oct 14, 2011. 3:05 PMOrigamiAirEnforcer says:
Perhaps I wasn't the first to make them...I don't know. It is the nature of paper airplanes to be forgotten and then (re)discovered, so it is entirely possible I stumbled across someone else's design while designing myself. :P
Jul 18, 2011. 11:47 PMfreakyqwerty says:
The paper spaceshuttle.
Jul 20, 2011. 3:44 PMshaigoitein says:
That can fly using electric power!
Check out www.tailortoys.com
Aug 4, 2011. 8:53 AMeviloverlord says:
Looks like a capacitor attached to a small motor.
Should be easy to replicate with the motor from a cell phone, cheap electric toothbrush, Fusion Power razor handle, etc.
Jul 21, 2011. 5:19 AMfreakyqwerty says:
I meant the one on this site but that looks cool as well…
Jul 21, 2011. 6:38 AMshaigoitein says:
Oh Sorry, In any case it is cool.. you can see some video samples here -http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pIoS_yqodBU
For all of the paper airplane enthusiasts, this is a great experimentation platform.
May 23, 2011. 9:06 PMThe nerdling says:
everyone my ible' pic is the main pic for this guide
WOOOT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
May 24, 2011. 3:23 PMOrigamiAirEnforcer says:
You may have gotten onto the cover, but 3 of my airplanes made it in too! :D
May 29, 2011. 5:51 PMThe nerdling says:
still, i am really exited.
3 planes cool!
Jun 4, 2011. 4:27 PMbjb98 says:
cool

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