Flying Paper Airplanes at the ES Library

Earth Day at CAC will be celebrated this year with a "Race to Save Planet Earth." This will include a fund-raising race around the CAC track and a recycled paper airplane competition.

In the recycled paper airplane competition, the paper airplane that travels the farthest will win. All paper airplanes must have the contestant's name and must bear an environmental message.

At the ES library, we've set out paper and paper airplane folding books. According to Ken Blackburn and Jeff Lammers, authors of the Kids Paper Airplane Book (Workman Publishing, 1996), the best paper airplanes to use when in a competition are 2 models they call the Slice and the Count. These are actually rather basic airplanes, but very efficient ones.

Here a short video on how to fold "the Slice," or the classic dart paper airplane. (Click on the linked text for instructions.)

And here's how to fold "the Count," which is also called the Nakamura Lock. 

Here are our paper airplane books. Once the airplane competition is over, they will be available for general checkout. Remember that you can place a hold on a library book once you log in to the library catalog with your CAC single-sign-on, so you should be able to place holds on these books if you want to continue your journey with paper airplanes.

	Kids' Paper Airplane Book, by Ken Blackburn Call number: E 745.59 BLA Provides information on the principles of aerodynamics, suggestions for designing airplanes, and instructions for folding paper planes and playing games with them. Includes a poster and sixteen model planes.
	The Kids' Guide to Paper Airplanes, by Christopher L. Harbo Call number: E 745.59 HAR Provides instructions and diagrams for making a variety of traditional paper airplanes.
	Super Simple Paper Airplanes, by Nick Robinson Call number: E 745.59 ROB Presents full-color illustrated instructions for creating a number of simple paper airplanes, and offers advice on paper sizes and types, basics of folding, principles of flight, classic and modern designs, and airborne origami.
	How to Make Origami Airplanes that Fly, by Gary Hsu Call number: E 736.98 HSU Presents illustrated, step-by-step instructions for folding twelve different aircraft from a square sheet of paper, and includes hints on how to achieve good flight performance.