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Space Shuttle Paper Airplane Click here to print

This craft is reprinted courtesy of AmazingPaperAirplanes.com.

 

Summertime is the perfect time to build a whole fleet of paper airplanes to fly as far as your imagination will allow.


Supplies

8 1/2 x 11 white paper

Color Printer


Click here for printables

Instructions

click on printables and print the space shuttle on an 8 1/2"x11" paper. Fold paper in half vertically.

Make a valley fold and unfold.

Insert the bottom corner point inward as shown in the diagram. This inside reverse fold makes a tail fin.

Fold the top layer as shown in the diagram.

Repeat Step 4 on the other side.

Make a valley fold along the vertical dashed line.

Unfold the flap and make a mountain fold so that the flap is under the top sheet. Repeat behind.

Fold down the wing section. Repeat behind.

Make another valley folding upward.

Repeat Step 9 on the other side wing.

Make a 3-dimensional shape as shown in the diagram. The Shuttle Paper Airplane is complete and ready to fly. Make sure the back view of your plane matches the diagram shown in the diagram.



   




Contributor

AmazingPaperAirplanes.com

http://amazingpaperairplanes.com/

Kyong Hwa Lee holds a Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from the University of New Mexico and has been working for more than 25 years in the aerospace industries. The paper airplanes presented in his web page include  old favorites as well as new designs that he recently created for his grand-children.  This web page is made to share his designs world wide with other children, their parents and their teachers who enjoy paper airplanes.  In his words, "I hope that "Amazing Paper Airplanes" will help you imagine soaring with the real airplanes and inspire you to make your own creative paper airplanes".


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