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The Great International Paper Airplane Book

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This was my firt paper airplane book and I have since bought quite a few. It is my favorite and I still refrence it for new ideas. Its designs are more varied than books with designs by just one author. The written portion is also very clever. It makes me hope for another International Paper Airplane Contest.

My dad had this book at home and since we were living on the top floor I had endless opportunities to experiment and litter the neighbourhood with planes made from this book's design. An evergreen favourite is Sakoda's Origami Supersonic Jet.
The first part of the book consists of a superbly eclectic history of the paper airplane with many ideas that will lead may a child of any age into endless hours of dreamy fun.
I found this book again this year in a Seattle bookshop and it brought back many happy memories!

In a world of hi-technology, electronics, computers and robotics, it's amazing such a book is still in print. This book has been a great inspiration for me through the years as it has thought me alot, not only about folding paper airplanes. It teaches us all that though we may have super-computers today, it's the creativity that matters afterall, because the best idea could possibly be the simplest.

Scientific American is one of America's most well known popular science journals. Part of its appeal is its periodic contests in different fields of science and technology. One of these is a paper airplane contest held annually. The top entires are summarized in this book, one of the better paper airplane books out there. The models range across different size ranges and have a variety of looks. The difficulty in building these models range from light to very difficult, and hence provide hours of entertainment for those willing to use their hands to build some stuff. Some require "cheating" in the form of scissors and tape, but the results are incredible looking models that do really fly. Overall, I recommend this book.

I bought this book in the mid-70s when I was perhaps seven years old, and in the ensuing years I spent endless hours attempting every design in it. Some were easy, some required scissors, glue and tongue depressors to complete, and some were so complex it took years of folding and refolding to get it right (the uppermost design on the cover was probably the most difficult). Then, when I was done, I could go outside and fly them.

And it's not just paper gliders; there's also plans for a functioning rocket using only a book of paper matches, a sheet of tin foil, a safety pin and a paper clip. And it really works!

30+ years later I still have this book, ragged and dogeared with pages falling out, and it will be in my library forever.

If you have a creative and curious kid who likes to work with his hands (and you can get him away from his Playstation) this book may provide hours of constructive entertainment. Just have lots of fresh sheets of paper on hand.

I've had this book since the early 1970s and love it. But I could never make Lewis G. Lowe's airplane because the instructions for the nose confound me. Has anyone made it successfully?

This is a really neat paper airplane book. It gives a background of flight, physics, how airplanes work, etc., and then has some really neat (but relatively simple to make) paper airplanes. Other books tend to be either to simple (for small children) or too complex (for adults who don't mind spending 30 minutes to construct one paper airplane). But this one is a nice middle ground.

He was really excited to see the patterns inside. There are some unusual designs you don't often see. There is a lot of great information as well.