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I've got a long-standing interest in origami, but I'm particularly fond of paper airplanes.

Unfortunately, there seems to be a severe lack of any material. The few books and videos I've found have been pretty disappointing. Case in point right here.

I'm well aware that things of this level of complexity are possible, but after spending dozens of hours searching, I've been unable to find any diagrams or CPs with the level of detail I want.

I'm competent folder, but I definitely don't have the experience necessary to be able to reverse engineer his models from just a few photos.

So, I'm hoping one of you might have found something I couldn't, or at least be able to point me in the right direction. If not his stuff, then something similar.

Well, if yu're looking for some nice planes, then I would reccommend José Maria Chaquet Ulldemolins book. It contains some lovely realistic plane models, and it's quite complex. You can buy it from Nicholas Terry's shop here: http://www.origami-shop.com/origami-boo ... 7-669.html

Yeah, I've seen those. I'm not really a fan. They look like a decent enough challenge to make, but the final result falls flat in my opinion.

For a little context, I cut my teeth on Thay Yang's Exotic Paper Airplanes about 11 years ago, and haven't really found anything I liked better (except the example I linked in my last post). I'm fond of his designs, but they're pretty easy.

I've looked at some Ten Boum's work as well, but they're too similar to what I'm already familiar with.[/i]

I folded the Bf-109 and Spitfire from the José Maria Chaquet book, and they don't seem to look flat:

*blink*

It's an expression. As in "to fall flat on his face." To fail to live up to expectation. It was a softer way of saying I don't like the look of the finished models.

I will grant that the Messerschmitt doesn't look half bad, but I have this thing about "not really caring too awful much for Nazi war machines" that I follow pretty consistently on principle. It is nice that it happens to be free. I'll play with it a bit, but...eh.

I'm looking for jets mostly, anyway. The minimalist in me really likes the clean lines that a prop doesn't allow.

Hsi-Hua Liu just recently posted diagrams for an excellent jet from an A4 rectangle on his Flickr page: http://www.flickr.com/photos/hsi-hua/page2/

Also see a recent topic viewtopic.php?t=1774 which has many recommendations for all types of planes, jets & non-jets alike

I know what you mean.

Here are my recommendations:

Issei Yoshino:

• F-15 Eagle - Tanteidan Magazines 40-42 (Out of print)
  Harrier Jet - Tanteidan Book 4 (Out of print)
  FA-18 Hornet - Tanteidan Magazine 102 (Available as part of volume 17, which is still in print)
  
  These are all very complex. The FA-18 diagrams are far superior to the others.

Ryo Aoki:

• F-117 - Tanteidan Book 7

Brad Minch:

• F-22 - viewtopic.php?t=1774

Michael LaFosse:

• F-14 - Origami Art

The last two fly, and are only slightly less realistic.

Good luck!

You run into a simple problem. Most paper airplanes are made to fly, and complex origami does not lend itself to aerodynamic shapes. Although there are a few really good designs of current and past aircraft, most enlightened people know that airplanes belong in the air, and as such make poor static models.

I don't particularly care if they fly. That usually just ends up tearing them up anyway.

I found the transforming VF-1 Valkyrie a few days ago. I need to find much larger paper before I can do it justice, though.

What about UAVs?? I made a Predator C... It's pretty cool. I might put the diagrams up, or I'll put it in my book...
If you can help me think of titles to my book here's the link..
viewtopic.php?t=7104&highlight=book+title