This was fun. I folded a fleet of paper airplanes today!
I kinda made up the designs as I went along. They were pretty simple. I made the one on the far right look like a kite. The one next to it was a little wider than the others because I wanted to make it easier for my little brother to hold.
One of my mom's co-worker taught me how to make a round glider like paper airplane. I forgot how to make it so I looked it up. I first found this NASA website. I wasn't sure if I did it right so I looked it up on YouTube to double check. Found this video from the Wings Over Rockies Air & Space Museum. It was really helpful to see how to throw this one because it's a little different than the usual paper airplane.
Here's what I made.
The last paper airplane I wanted to share is this one that I made at last year's Okinawan Festival.
It doesn't fly but you can twirl it around with the string and stick that's attached. The name that's written on the plane is Shigeru Serikaku. His family was from Okinawa. They moved to Hawaii in 1906. Because he didn't have money to buy a plane he decided to try and make one. I learned that it was the first airplane that was built and flown in Hawaii. Here's a link to a news story about him.
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