Paper Airplanes With Dollar Bills: Another Way to Throw Your Money Away (Spiral-bound)

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Product Description

Those dollar bills really will go places when they’re turned into these super paper airplanes. Select from 13 different models, all created from a variety of easy folds and a buck. (There’s no cutting, drawing, or taping involved, so the currency isn’t defaced or destroyed.) Duy Nguyen, author of more than a dozen origami books featuring every motif from creepy-crawly critters to holiday designs, presents a hangar full of cool aircrafts, accompanied by fun money facts. Just follow his simple, well-illustrated instructions to assemble a Boeing 747, F14A Tomcat, B-52 Stratofortress, Battlestar Gallactica Raider, Concorde, and others. It’s the best way to “throw away” that wealth!

Product Details

• Spiral-bound: 80 pages
• Publisher: Sterling (September 1, 2005)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1402729405
• ISBN-13: 978-1402729409
• Product Dimensions: 8.3 x 4.7 x 0.8 inches
• Shipping Weight: 8.8 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 3.1 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (7 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #177,123 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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15 of 15 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars A Great Gift for Beginners or Experts in Paper Folding, December 28, 2005

By	KAV (CA) - See all my reviews

I got this book for Christmas while I was deployed overseas with the Army and I loved it. I made three planes in the first day. This book will show you how to take $1 bills (or bigger if you are really rich) and fold them into recognizable (if you are an airplane geek) planes. The planes range from the simple (A Concord) to the difficult (747) and from the historical (WWI fighter) to sci-fi (The Enterprise). I wouldn't recommend this book to anyone under the age of 16 though, unless they have previous experience in paper-folding as some of the planes are very difficult to make.

When I received my book it was stuffed full of crisp $1 bills. I do not think the book comes like this as it was not shrink wrapped but it is a good idea if you are going to give the book as a gift (after all who wants to fold their own money).

While these planes are nice to look at, they have a few useful practices. If you can memorize how to make a few of them I am sure you could impress many people from your waiter/waitress/bartender to the attractive person sitting next to you on a long flight.

So if you need a quick gift for someone, or just want to entertain yourself for a few hours, I would recommend this book. The reason I only gave it four stars is because a few of the directions and illustrations are confusing, but you can usually wing it with no big consequences (pun intended).).

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars The best fun you can have with a one dollar bill!, September 30, 2008

By	Anna L. Taylor (Yorktown, VA) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

I bought this for my son. We made a number of these together. However, you do have to really study the diagrams. Some of these are almost impossible to make if you are the "average" origami buff like we are. However, overall, we had a lot of fun constructing these. They make wonderful gifts in lieu of simply stuffing some money into a card.

3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars A hit, January 12, 2007

By	A. Haake (San Antonio TX) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

I pick up things like this to give to my the teens and young adults males on my gift list. They seem to like the projects that would impress the girls in school or at the bar.