The great international paper airplane book

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1. coinMay 2023
   Many of those are from the classic Great International Paper Airplane Book published in 1967.
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2. carapaceJul 2022
   One of the finest paper airplanes is the origami design of Prof. James M. Sakoda of Brown University "winner of the origami award in the First Inernational Paper Airplane Contest" in 1967 and published in "The Great International Paper Airplane Book" (Jerry Mander, George Dippel, Howard Gossage)

   https://i.imgur.com/Kv94Glf.png

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3. JKCalhounJul 2022
   "Great International Paper Airplane Book" [0] was my drug.

   [0] https://archive.org/details/greatinternation00mandrich

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4. ThinkingGuyJul 2022
   For me, it was "The Great International Paper Airplane Book" (which I was happy to discover is now available for borrowing on the Internet Archive):

   https://archive.org/details/greatinternation00jerr

   I went through 2 physical copies cutting out all the patterns to make the various planes.

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5. JKCalhounJun 2020
   I remember that from the classic "Great International Paper Airplane Book". Seems it is on them cover even:

   https://www.amazon.com/dp/0671211293?tag=duckduckgo-osx-20&l...

   The 70's truly were a creative decade....

   A seemingly related book is on archive.org, the helicopter appears to be on page 38:

   https://archive.org/details/The_Great_International_Paper_Ai...

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6. JKCalhounMar 2018
   You reminded me of "The Great International Paper Airplane Book" (http://a.co/aCbN01n) .. what a classic.

   There is a section in the book on the plane that won the duration contest. More or less a rectangular wing as I recall with just enough forward mass to give it forward movement and just enough dihedral to keep it stable.

   Edit: found a page where the first image is of that record setting duration flight: http://www.codex99.com/design/the-paper-airplane-book.html

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