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Fold Your Own Sky King Paper Airplane

Last Update: Tue, 10/13/2009 - 16:36 — rhiannon

Instructions to build your own cool snub-nosed paper aircraft.

I've been folding paper airplanes since I was a kid. Some of them flew a short distance, some of them took a nose dive immediately, and some were dismal failures. Takuo Toda has developed 700 designs for paper airplanes. This site has both a video tutorial and illustrated diagrams so you can create your own.
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Have fun!

Fold Your Own Sky King Paper Airplane

Onward,
Rhiannon

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#1Submitted by Anonymous on Thu, 10/15/2009 - 11:00.

Takuo Toda's signature paper airplane is no ordinary bit of origami. After launch on April 11, the snub-nosed craft wafted so high into the rafters of the vast Fukuyama Big Rose Hall in Hiroshima, Japan, that the camera operator recording the flight lost sight of it for a couple of seconds. The clock kept ticking. Finally, 27.9 seconds after it left Toda's hand, the fittingly named Sky King drifted to the ground, ending a flight 0.3 seconds longer than the previous world record for a paper plane.

Where can I get a video or recording of that flight?

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