The great international paper airplane book
by Jerry Mander, George Dippel, Howard Gossage · first published 1971
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…the finest paper airplanes is the origami design of Prof. James M. Sakoda of Brown University "winner of the origami award in the First Inernational Paper Airplane Contest" in 1967 and published in "The Great International Paper Airplane Book" (Jerry Mander, George Dippel, Howard Gossage) https://i.imgur.com/Kv94Glf.png
on “Paper Airplane Designs (2013)” ↗I remember that from the classic "Great International Paper Airplane Book". Seems it is on them cover even: https://www.amazon.com/dp/0671211293?tag=duckduckgo-osx-20&l... The 70's truly were a creative decade.... A seemingly related book is on archive.org, the helicopter…
on “Paper Airplane Designs” ↗Many of these appear to be from "The great international paper airplane book", which lists the top contestants from the first International Paper Airplane contest (1967?). It's a great book and I highly recommend it.
on “The Paper Planes of New York” ↗"Great International Paper Airplane Book" [0] was my drug. [0] https://archive.org/details/greatinternation00mandrich
on “Paper Airplane Designs (2013)” ↗Many of those are from the classic Great International Paper Airplane Book published in 1967.
on “Paper Airplane Designs: A database of paper airplanes” ↗You reminded me of "The Great International Paper Airplane Book" (http://a.co/aCbN01n) .. what a classic. There is a section in the book on the plane that won the duration contest. More or less a rectangular wing as I recall with just enough forward mass to give…
on “Learn How to Fold a World-Record-Setting Paper Airplane” ↗For me, it was "The Great International Paper Airplane Book" (which I was happy to discover is now available for borrowing on the Internet Archive): https://archive.org/details/greatinternation00jerr I went through 2 physical copies cutting out all the patterns…
on “Paper Airplane Designs (2013)” ↗The two rings + stick design was also in "The Great International Paper Airplane Book": http://www.codex99.com/design/images/airplane/18_lg.jpg
on “Paper Airplane Designs (2013)” ↗Many years as a kid were spent reading through this old book my father had: The Great International Paper Airplane Book https://archive.org/details/greatinternation00mandrich
on “Paper Airplane Designs: A database of paper airplanes” ↗