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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.


With this brief but informative how-to guide, Collins, an award-winning paper-airplane designer, elevates his creations from tools of classroom mischief makers This article is about the video game. For the art activist collective, see The Mischief Makers.
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Of or relating to aeronautics.



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 art forms. In a brief introduction on flight dynamics and with a glossary A term used by Microsoft Word and adopted by other word processors for the list of shorthand, keyboard macros created by a particular user. See glossaries in this publication and The Computer Glossary.  of terms used in paper folding paper folding
 Japanese origami

Art of folding objects out of paper without cutting, pasting, or decorating. Its early history is unknown, but it seems to have developed from the older art of folding cloth.
, Collins explains how to make 20 planes and other flying objects. Each one, with names such as the Stinger, Starship Shuttle, and Wind Devil, is described in step-by-step folding instructions, including tips on how to increase a plane's lift or encourage it to perform loops. Clever flip-book illustrations demonstrate classic folds in action. Ten Speed Press, 2005, 146 p., b&w illus., paperback, $16.95.
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