Flying Dragons Paper Airplane Ebook: 48 Paper Airplanes, 64 Page Instruction Book, 12 Original Designs, YouTube Video Tutorials

By Sam Ita and Paul Frasco

Fill the skies with your very own collection of colorful 3D dragons!

This paper airplane book features a fabulous variety of dragon-themed paper planes—each with a unique form and flight characteristics. The full-color instructions provide step-by-step folding instructions for each model and "dragon mastery tips" to help you coax the best performance from each airplane. Folding these fun and challenging planes is a great activity for brain gymnastics!

This book includes 12 exciting dragons, including:

• The Chinese Dragon, a front-weighted dart that covers distance at an alarming rate!
• The Fighter Dragon, a fanciful dinosaur-cyborg warplane!
• The Swoop Dragon, an aerobatic performer that can turn on you if you're not careful!
• The Flying Shark, a menacing glider that patrols the skies in search of its prey!
• And many other impressive flying dragons!

This paper airplane kit includes:

• 48 printable paper airplane folding sheets
• A 64 page full-color instruction book
• 12 original dragon-themed paper airplane designs

**Winner of Creative Child Magazine 2018 Book of the Year Award**

• Language: English
• Publisher: Tuttle Publishing
• Release date: Aug 1, 2017
• ISBN: 9781462919376

Book preview

SAMITA | PAUL FRASCO

Photography by Dario Canova

TUTTLE Publishing

Tokyo | Rutland, Vermont | Singapore

Contents

Introduction

Folding Instructions

Paper Airplane Mastery Tips

Quetzalcoatl (The Feathered Serpent)

The Frilled Dragon

The Chinese Dragon

The Fireball

The Mini Dragon

The Fighter Dragon

The Gargoyle

The Swoop Dragon

The Flying Demon

The Insectoid Dragon

The Flying Shark

The Flame Monster

About the Authors

Find the folding demonstration videos at www.tuttlepublishing.com/flying-dragons-paper-airplane-kit-demos

Introduction

This kit is a follow-up to my Next Generation Paper Airplanes Kit. One plane from that kit, The Gremlin, gave me the idea to create an entire collection of models, in the form of flying creatures. It was hard enough to come up with original models that actually flew well. This kit’s dragon theme added another hurdle, and an awfully high one, at that. Would it prove to be a fool’s errand? I’d find out soon enough.

Luckily, I had help. After carefully considering it for a few seconds, my good friend, and occasional collaborator, Paul Frasco agreed to co-author this book. He is an origami expert, who had designed numerous fantasy creature models.

I see origami as a language. It can be used to describe anything. But it requires skill and imagination to articulate. Origami can be poetry—and what is more poetic than flight?

A satisfying model involves not only precision and logic, but an element of magic. At some point, the paper completely transforms, like an egg hatching, a flower blooming or a butterfly emerging from its cocoon. Even if you are familiar enough with origami to recognize the mechanics of the transformation, there is something very enjoyable about watching the story unfold. Or in this case, literally, the reverse.

The story of this book begins with Paul folding beautiful dragons with well-articulated