These beautiful and flying planes are very simple. Even preschoolers can make them with the help of adults. To work, you will need thick paper (whatman paper), several dry and straight straws Ø2-2.5 mm (cereals, bluegrass) and silicate office glue. Tools include a safety razor blade, a jigsaw, a ruler and a pencil.
Start making models with a drawing. Transfer all the details to life-size thick paper and cut them out with scissors. We cut out a weight cabin from plywood 3 mm thick. We cut the wing along the dotted line, bend the front edge and glue it together.
Now take two straws 130 mm long and scrape them with sandpaper or a razor blade at the glued points. Attach the straws to the wing using paper clamps. Use them to glue the stabilizer to the straws.
1 — lantern; 2 — cabin-weight; 3 — wing; 4 – stabilizer; 5, 6 — brackets for “jet engines”; 7 — corners for fastening the cabin-weight; 8 — stabilizer mounting linings; 9 — wing mounting pads; 10 — “jet engine”; 11 — skis; 12 — front wheel; 13 — landing gear wheel. Unspecified sizes are by location. A – jet aircraft; B – biplane on wheels; B – biplane on skis or floats
For a monoplane, the wing at the edges of the pads along the dotted line must be bent upward by 20 mm. The ailerons should not be cut out, but only marked decoratively. In the center of the wing, place a weight cabin, which is secured on the sides with paper corners for strength. A front plexiglass canopy with portholes can be glued into the cockpit.
Before launching the airplane, make two cuts on the stabilizer, bend the surface between them upward: you will get an elevator. The ends of the stabilizer are also bent along the dotted line to a vertical position. These will be the keels. One of them is cut – we get a steering wheel.
The model can be turned into a biplane glider. To do this, you need to cut out another wing. Place it on the first one, and in the places indicated by the circles, pierce four holes into which insert four 30 mm long straws. Glue their ends to the upper and lower wings. If the racks are extended to 50 mm, then wheels cut out of paper, floats or foam skis can be easily attached to them.
The monoplane can also be equipped with two “jet engines”. They are made from paper tubes 40 mm long glued together with a pencil, which are placed under the wing on paper brackets.
These models fly well both indoors and outdoors. And they even perform some aerobatics. With paper gliders, you can conduct competitions on flight range (a monoplane flies almost 30 m) and landing accuracy.
Maxim PAKHOMOV, aircraft modeller-instructor
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