Sabretooth Paper Airplane

The sabretooth paper airplane flies fantastically if thrown straight up into the air or as a normal glider. It is great!

Video Instructions

Written Instructions

Take a plain A4 size piece of paper as in DIG. 1.

Fold the top and bottom left hand corners into the center as in DIG. 2

Now fold the entire left hand side triangle to the right to give DIG. 3.

Turn the entire sheet over and repeat the action in DIG. 2 and then turn the sheet back over to give you DIG. 4. You can see this at 0:55.

Now fold the small left hand triangle to the right along the dotted line in DIG. 4 making A meet B. This gives you DIG. 5.

Turn the paper over to give DIG. 6

The two small triangles at the left hand end are flaps of paper. Tuck your finger into the lower of these two flaps and pull it out as shown by the arrows in DIG. 6. If you do this correctly you will find you have DIG. 7. See this at 1:29 in the video.

Now repeat this process with the other of the two triangles to give DIG. 8

Now turn the form in DIG. 8 to give you DIG. 9.

Fold along the dotted lines in DIG. 10 to give you the form shown head on in DIG. 11 . This can be done in one of two ways. Both fly quite well. See what works best for you.

Flying Instructions

This is a fantastic plane. Throw it as hard as possible vertically up into the air. Prefferably with a strong wind blowing towards you and just watch the plane soar and dive like a bird. It is almost always slight unsymmetrical and so this paper airplane will also fly in a huge arc. The lower the plane falls the faster it gets as well. It is brilliant if a little hard to make.