Q&A for How to Make a Fast Paper Airplane

Throw it softly; throwing too hard will make it do a nose dive.

When a paper airplane is spiraling out of control, it usually means the wings are lopsided. Double check the wing folds and make sure they’re flat, even, and at the same height. Make small adjustments, as tampering with the wings too much can soften the paper and decrease loft.

There's no need to throw your paper airplane slow: it's more about the force with which you throw it than the speed per se. Make sure you get a good windup and release the airplane with a smooth, controlled motion, letting it take off in a straight path.

To keep your airplane flying, never throw it hard. If you throw it softly more air won't be above the wings.

Yes, as long as it is a rectangular shape.

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The completed airplane will be about four inches from nose to tail, making it one of the more compact paper airplane designs.

At a length of 45 feet (13.7 meters), a wingspan of 24 feet (7.3 m), and a weight of 800 pounds (363 kg), Arturo's Desert Eagle is supposedly the largest paper airplane ever made. Its design was based on that of a much smaller paper airplane, created by 12 year-old Arturo Valdenegro of Tucson, Arizona.

In general, and especially if you're new to making paper airplanes, 8.5 x 11 is the recommended size. Once you've gotten comfortable with that, you can try making airplanes with different sizes.

Make it lighter or give it a strong throw. Remove anything useless that does not need to be on the airplane.

Just try again. Life is full of little failures and disappointments. You just have to keep trying.

You take the small triangle and fold it up to the two other triangles.

Usually it will fly in the opposite direction of the fan, so you should position the fan to point towards the direction you want to plane to fly.

You need to make sure that your folds are correctly placed. If your wings aren't straight, your plane won't fly straight.

You can make the paper airplane out of something like card stock to make it go farther, but it will be harder to fold.

You could try adding a little masking tape to the back of the plane, which should weigh the tail down and cause the plane to flip when you fly it.

If it flies fast, doesn't curve and moves at a straight angle, you made it right!