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The Gliding Flight: Simple Fun with a Sheet of Paper--Make and Fly 20 Original Paper Airplanes Using No Glue or Cutting Paperback – September 1, 2005
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- Reading age11 - 13 years
- Print length168 pages
- LanguageEnglish
- Dimensions7.4 x 0.4 x 9.3 inches
- PublisherTen Speed Press
- Publication dateSeptember 1, 2005
- ISBN-101580087264
- ISBN-13978-1580087261
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- Publisher : Ten Speed Press; New edition (September 1, 2005)
- Language : English
- Paperback : 168 pages
- ISBN-10 : 1580087264
- ISBN-13 : 978-1580087261
- Reading age : 11 - 13 years
- Item Weight : 12.2 ounces
- Dimensions : 7.4 x 0.4 x 9.3 inches
- Best Sellers Rank: #1,146,258 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
- #552 in Model Building
- #564 in Origami (Books)
- #2,011 in Paper Craft
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About the author

Most people ask how I got started. The truth is I never stopped. At some point, I started studying origami. Armed with a new set of folding tools, my planes really started to take better shape and fly better.
With The Gliding Flight, the first book, I managed to do something that hadn't been done yet: a collection of high performance, folded planes. The premise was simple: the only resource needed would be available in the average waste basket. It was a freeing idea and the simplicity appealed to me: one sheet of paper, some folding, and a great flying toy is created. Origami has given me the tools to create planes with landing gear, engine nacelles, tunnels in the nose, and most importantly; clean, efficient wing and body shapes.
With Fantastic Flight, I was working on paper airplanes that could do extraordinary things: circle back, flip over and fly back upside down, flap their wings, and some that can stay aloft using an updraft created by the pilot. These bold ideas are based on simple science. Folding is all that's required, even for the Super Canard; and aircraft with a small forward wing.
With The New World Champion Paper Airplane Book, my paper airplanes are officially world class. The truth is, my designs have been flying around in the winner's circle at the Red Bull World Finals for aerobatics the last few years.
My fourth book is self-published and contains all the planes from my world famous paper airplane shows. "The World Record Paper Airplane and International Award Winning Designs: The Best of John M Collins and More Paper Airplane Book" is the book I'd want if I were starting to make paper airplanes.
I'm frequently asked, "What's your best paper airplane?" I can only answer with the question, "for what mission?" Do you need the best time aloft, the best distance, the best flapping wing, the most stall resistant, or the one that I've flown for more than a half hour?
I do a lot of public and private shows. I've been fortunate to see some of the world while showing off my planes. In any language the sound people make when they see the Bat Plane or the Tumbling Wing for the first time, is always the same. There's a gasp of wonder, some loud whispers of "no way"(or the equivalent) and a flurry of camera shutters. My dream has finally come true, and I'm making and throwing paper airplanes for a living. It's a crazy dream come true, and I invite you to join me for the fun.
Website
www.ThePaperAirplaneGuy.com
iPhone app: The Paper Airplane Guy's Construction Kit
YouTube Channel: The Paper Airplane Guy
Appearances:
Harvard Graduate School of Design
Carnegie Mellon
Stanford University
Clark University
Rice University
Mattel
Go Daddy
Boeing /Jeppeson
Hawaii Electric Company
Google Zeitgeist 2013
Sony PS4 conference 2013
Grupo RBS conference 2103
Maker Faire 2013
Evergreen Aviation 2013
Hiller Aviation 2013
Genentech, San Francisco 2011
Google, San Francisco 2010
Maker Fair, San Mateo 2010
Evergreen Aviation Museum, Portland Oregon 2010
Evergreen Aviation Museum, Oregon 2009
Hiller Aviation Museum, San Carlos, CA 2009
Mobius Children's Museum Fundraiser, Spokane, WA 2009
Maker Fair 2009
Parents Education Network Conference 2009
Charles Armstrong School 2009
INTUIT Designer Conference, Redwood City, CA 2008
Client: Intuit
Sebastopol Center for the Arts, Sebastopol, CA 2008
Art Science and Tech Day
The Tech Museum, San Jose, CA 2008
The Tech Challenge 2008-2009
Singapore Science Center, Singapore 2008
Amazing Flying Machine Competition
The Green School, Bali, Indonesia 2008
Special Invitation
Hiller Aviation Museum, San Carlos, CA 2008
Fly In 2008: Client Hiller Aviation Museum
* * Re:think Convention 2007
Client: Impact Unlimited
* * BIO 2006 - International Bio-tech convention, Chicago
Client: Quintiles
* * Maker Fair 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012 - National Event in Association with Make Magazine. Main Stage demonstration.
Client: Maker Fair
* * Hiller Aviation Museum, San Carlos, CA 2007
Client: Hiller Aviation Museum
* * Book Expo America 2005, New York
* * Exploratorium (Science Museum) San Francisco - various dates
Clients: ASDI and Novell
Every national broadcast network and major cable channel carried video of the world record throw. Partial list of some personal appearances:
International TV
* * BBC
* * Singapore
* * TV Globo (Brazil and beyond)
National Television:
* * Conan
* * The Hallmark Channel "Home and Family"
* * CNN
* * DISCOVERY CHANNEL "NEXT STEP"
* * CBS "THIS MORNING"
Local Television:
* * KATU "AM Northwest
* * KPIX-TV (CBS Affiliate), San Francisco "EYE ON THE BAY"
* * KRON-TV (NBC Affiliate), San Francisco "SPORTS FINAL"
"THE MORNING NEWS" "BAY AREA BACKROADS" 5,6, and 11pm NEWS
* * KTVU-TV (FOX Affiliate), San Francisco "THE TEN O'CLOCK NEWS"
* * KING-TV (NBC Affiliate), Seattle "MORNING NEWS"
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The not-so-good: I bought this book for my 7 year-old. The planes are too difficult for him to make on his own. In order to save paper space, the author often refers to other planes as starting points. If you have the other planes memorized, that's fine. Unfortunately, it means a lot of flipping around if you're just starting or haven't looked at it in a while. Same thing with the flip-through animation for tips. You have to leave the page you're on to see how to make certain folds.
Despite those things, I gave the book five stars because the planes themselves are so fun. Just don't expect it to be an independent project for younger kids.
The phoenix flies the best so far!
The instructions, however, are a bit difficult to follow - even for my husband. For example, he was helping our son create the second plane in the book and it ended up involving three of us. In the middle of the instructions, we learn there was a prefold that we needed to have done and we had to unfold everything to make that prefold and then fold it back up again!
The point being that it's not impossible - but it's just poorly written.
You'd think they would put all the basic fold styles at the beginning for easy reference. But they don't. They are illustrated on the outside margin in flip book fashion. So you have to keep moving through the pages to figure it out.
It could have been good. I would only recommend this for serious origami/paper airplane enthusiasts who are *committed* to figuring the instructions out.
The planes I've made so far were the most challenging ones in the book and they came out fine...I'm waiting for his sister book, Fantastic Flight. Oh the Trang , Starfighter, starship shuttle, AWACS are awesome to make and fly!
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And also biggest fan of jhon my collins









