Flying Dragons Paper Airplane Ebook: 48 Paper Airplanes, 64 Page Instruction Book, 12 Original Designs, YouTube Video Tutorials
By Sam Ita and Paul Frasco
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About this ebook
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**
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Flying Dragons Paper Airplane Ebook - Sam Ita
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