How do you make a paper airplane that acually FLIES?

Question

An airplane that flies using
-paper
-rubber bands
-paper clips
-string
-tape
-glue
-staples
(and the wings should be shaped like bird wings- flat lower surface and curved upper surface)
THANKS!!!
&& add the website of there is one

Answer 1

Fold the plane, here are a few sites:
http://hairball.bumba.net/~rwa2/aircraft/
http://www.origami-resource-center.com/paper-airplanes.html
http://www.paperairplanes.co.uk/planes.php

Or build it out of paper.

Or if you want to make a smashing impression, fold a crossbow and shoot your plane:
http://www.origami.34sp.com/crossbow%20diagrams%20(revised).pdf

Answer 2

I would personally get one of those balsa wood and tissue paper rubber band powered model airplanes and use that as a basis for this project. You can actually make your structural bulkheads and stringers out of layers of paper, in a similar fashion that plywood is made.

Yasuaki Ninomiya, one of the winners of the 1st International Paper Airplane contest, used this same construction technique for his paper gliders. With that technique, you should be able to create your model airplane's airframe with enough strength and lightness to do its job. You would probably need appropriate reinforcement where the propeller hub is, which should just be the first bulkhead, and where the rubber band's tail end anchor is.

Of course, the tissue paper from the model kit would still be appropriate to use, since that is still a form of paper. So you should be using at least two types of paper. One would be the strong stuff for making the airframe, then a lightweight one to make the covering or skin. The "paper clips" or more appropriately the metal wires would probably make up the skeleton for the propellor and the landing gear. This will become obvious when you see the plans for the model airplane.

You shouldn't need tape, nor string, nor staples. You definitely need glue, one type that is not water based for the airframe parts, so no structural warping occurs, and the other type being a glue stick to attach the tissue paper to the airframe. Just make sure that you attach that tissue paper in small sections, so you have better control over how tensely or taut you attach that skin over the skeleton/airframe. You will also most likely need a small modelling or exacto knife and fine sandpaper, to make sure that your bulkheads and stringers are properly shaped so they fit well. These bulkheads will most likely be make from about 6 to 8 pieces of paper glued and sandwiched together, which resembles a miniature form of plywood.

Hope this makes sense, especially after you buy and examine a balsa wood and tissue paper airplane kit.

Sincerely,
Alvin R.

Answer 3

Fold the paper in half hotdog style and then unfold it. Next, take the cornersup to the fold and crease it. Then do that again. From there fold the wing and you have a plane

Answer 4

email this guy.. he holds the world record for paper airplanes. if anyone knows it'll be him. [e-mail]
This is his website: http://paperplane.org/ -pretty creative.lol.