Oooh, oooh, I'm not sure I've followed the Guardian's instructions to the letter but what I've come up with flies really, really well. It barely barely loses any height by the time it collides with my living room wall.
My first attempt didn't go so well, until I realised that the key is to get the fuselage tightly shut - there should be no gap down the centre of the plane. I agree with Loomis, the problems arise around stage 8. I'll try and explain what I did.
1. fold the nose from side to side, then fix it against one side of the fuselage, so that, were you to let go it would stick out at a right angle.
2. Keeping the nose compressed against one side, fold the nose until it points upwards, then tuck the vertical point back into the fuselage, thus creating the aforementioned seal.
That probably doesn't help.
Sax, did your Granddad use two pieces of paper? My Gramps used to make something that looked like a swallow, and he used two pieces of paper - or, rather, one piece of A4 paper cut into two. |
