Constantly disappointed with free instructions for paper planes (on the Internet and elsewhere), because so many exhibit poor flight characteristics and many just don’t fly at all, I decided to do something about this.

I folded several 100’s of paper plane designs, discarded those that didn’t fly well and short listed the better ones. I then set about modifying wing shapes and ratios, fold angles and weight distribution to achieve the best possible flight characteristics. After many hours over many months of experimentation and cycles of modifying, altering, tweaking and testing, I created a set of 10 paper planes which I believe deserve to be called ‘possibly the 10 best paper planes on the planet’. Some are modified known designs and some are completely original.

There are paper planes and then there are these paper planes !

With a minimum of trim inputs, these 10 planes fly superbly straight
and true with satisfying flat glide angles.
Hours of fun and delight not disappointment !

Andy Lomax
BA Hons. Industrial Design