Getting Started: A paper plane, paper
aeroplane, or paper airplane is a toy plane made out of paper. It is lso sometimes called aerogami, after origami (the Japanese art of paper
folding). In Japanese, it is called kami hikoki; kami=paper, hikoki=airplane.
It is popular due to its being one of the easiest typess of origami for a
novice to master. The most basic paper plane would only take at most six
steps to "correctly" complete. The term "paper plane" in recent times
can also refer to those made from cardboard.
A little history: The use of paper to create toys is still
a mystery, is believed to have originated 2,000 years ago in China,
where kites were a popular form of entertainment. Paper was developed in
China in the first century A.D., and Buddhist monks brought it to Japan
by the sixth century A.D. Although these can be considered to be
evidence for the modern paper plane, no one can be sure where exactly
this invention originated; designs for velocity, lift and fashion have
been improved by the years gone by. Leonardo da Vinci is often cited as
the inventor of paper planes, although this is debatable. However, he
did make reference to building a model plane out of parchment. Arguably
the father of model gliders was George Cayley, who built hand-launched
kite-like gliders from linen in the early 1800s.
The earliest known date of the creation of paper planes was said to have
been in 1909. However, the most accepted version of the creation was two
decades later in 1930 by Jack Northrop (Co-founder of Lockheed
Corporation). Northrop has used paper planes as tests so that he could
discover ideas for flying real-life aircraft.
In "Paper
Airplane
and
Paper Boat" you will find instructions and
diagrams totally FREE, to make several models of paper airplanes and
paper boats, with Interactive 3D animation to fold the airplanes and
boats, that guided you, step to step, in the
construction of the models.
How to make paper
Airplane? How to make paper
boat?
I Want to Play Free Games offers you
50 models of paper airplanes and paper ships classified in the following
categories: Gliders,
Hunters,
Vortexes,
Tumbling
and
Paper Ships
We have also included a
new section of
Origami 3D
