Advanced Orange Dart

DMackeyPage 112/16/2018

THE "advanced"ORANGE DART

This plane, it has to be said, is not one of the all time greats. It can't fly that far, its ungainly and its unreliable. However, it wasn't designed to break records, it was designed as a "technology demonstrator", to show off how to make "enclosed down-turned" planes - (You'll see what I mean by this when you build it). For anyone setting out to design paper planes of their own, building this plane can introduce you to a whole new design format you might never have thought of.

(To SAVE these instructions click Edit, Select All, then Save)

1. Take a piece of A4 paper

2. Fold lengthways

3. Fold a corner down to the centre line. Then repeat on the other side.

4. Open out along the centre line to get the diagram below.

5. Now fold inwards along the blue line to get the diagram on the right.

6. Now undo the fold you have just made fold along the blue line to get the diagram on the right.

7. Now undo that fold and turn the paper over to get the left hand diagram below. Now the tricky part. Push the sides inwards until the paper (when placed on its side) looks like the diagram on the right.

8. Now fold the wings down along the blue line, to get the diagram on the right.

9. Now turn the plane so the wings face down and fold inwards along the blue lines to create the stabilisers.

10. Turn the plane over, and WOW! You have finished. I hope you have fun.

This plane may not yet fly properly, to CALIBRATE it click here.

CALIBRATING

This page will soon be available with BETTER pictures (oooooh I bet you can't wait)

IF A PLANE SEEMS TO QUICKLY DESCEND TO THE FLOOR

IT NEEDS MORE LIFT!

This can be done by:

1. Tweaking the back of both wings up slightly

2. Adjust the stabilisers. In general If they point up already, make them bigger. If they point down, make them smaller. However, if either this adjustment makes the descent even quicker, do the reverse! This sometimes means changing the vertical direction of the stabilisers entierely.

3. Increase the height of the back end of the fuselage, as show in the (very poor!) diagram below.

Side view of Aeroplane

IF A PLANE STALLS

It needs less lift!

-Do the opposite of the things stated in the above section!