Looking for: Realistic Airplanes

[Luis Eduardo]

Hola soy yo de nuevo, Hi, it's me again.

Well, i have this aunt, she collects all kind of planes, cause my grandpa was a pilot and died in an accident a long time ago. Anyway, I already gave to her the biplane by mark, but I'm looking for an air plane with diagrams, and that looks realistic and good.

I would appreciate your help

[eric_son]

Hola,

I think there's a monoplane with a two-blade propeller in one of the Tanteidan collections...I'm not sure what issue though.
I don't know if there are any diagrams freely available.

Eric

[Luis Eduardo]

thanks, can you give me the edition of the magazine?

[origamimasterjared]

It's by Noboru Miyajima:

http://www.h5.dion.ne.jp/~origami/e/pro ... plane.html

[Maethornadu]

Do you mean the Spitfire from the 10'th convention book?

http://www.giladorigami.com/BO_OT10.html

[bethnor]

the late Issei Yosshino designed some of the more complex, realistic planes. his harrier can be found in tanteidan convention #4, volume 4, which may be hard to come by nowadays. his beautiful F-15 can be found in the back issues of the tanteidan magazine, which is probably even harder to find. the former may still be available from Gallery Origami House, the latter your best bet from JOAS itself (and may unfortunately be out of print)

there are diagrams available for a less realistic F-14 that can fly if you fold it correctly. they used to be available from origami-USA, but i am not sure if it is still in print. it is more intermediate than complex.

when my budget allows i am considering the airplane book available from nicholas terry's webiste (www.passionorigami.com) by chaquet. the models themselves look very nice, but since i have folded none of them myself i cannot comment on complexity.

finally quite a few are avaible from amazon.com. as i recall gilad's website gives a very good review of tem boun's book.

[bminch]

Hi everyone,

I have been lurking on this forum for almost a year now, and this is my first post. Pictured below is the Raptor, which is an origami paper airplane that I devised in early 2005 by applying Thay Yang's fuselage folding technique to the base invented by Michael LaFosee for his F-14 Tomcat model. Like Michael's F-14 Tomcat, the Raptor actually flies quite well with a slight upward curl of each of the horizontal stabilizers.



I have diagramed it, but I am not really satisfied with their current form. So far, I haven't had a chance to clean them up. I have a 30-minute video showing how to fold it hosted by Google at http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid ... 9816&hl=en, also shown below.

<embed id="VideoPlayback" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" src="http://video.google.com/googleplayer.sw ... 9816&hl=en"> </embed>

Brad Minch.

[HankSimon]

Brad -

I think I got copies of your F-22 Raptor diagrams. Fantastic plane ! I modified LaFosse's F-14 to look like an F-35 JSF (Lightning II), and it wasn't as cool or as sweet as your design ... Good thing I don't design planes.

For Origami purposes the F-35 and F-22 are similar. The F-22 is twin-engine and has fuller, more rounded wings. It is larger and not meant to be as maneuverable as the F-35.

F-22 - http://www.lockheedmartin.com/data/assets/6055.jpg
F-35 - http://www.lockheedmartin.com/data/assets/6830.jpg

Lockheed has a new plane - the F-175 Polecat. The LM Skunkworks in Palmdale, California, USA released pictures of the new unmanned plane, Polecat, which looks similar to a B-2.

Anyone have or know of diagrams - anywhere - for a similar plane ?

http://www.compositesworld.com/news/cww ... y/cw110582

Thanx,

- Hank Simon

[origamimasterjared]

There's also Ryo Aoki's F117 in Tanteidan Book 7

[TriKri]

Hi, I folded a few of the f-22 planes a few years ago, and to my big surprise, they could actually fly as well as they were looking good. I found a video in which one of those where folded (maybe it was here I found it), but it seems to have been removed. Is there some diagram available for folding that model?

Brad, if it was your model I found, it is really amazing (it probably was here, since this video has been removed as well). Hank, if you have copies of the diagram, could you please send them to me or upload them, or do you know if they can be found anywhere on the web?

Thanks
/Kristofer

[InsomniacFolder]

There is a fabulous version of the Lockheed SR-71 Blackbird spy plane by Toshikazu Kawasaki in "Origami for the Connoisuer" by Kunihiko Kasahara.

You can see pictures at Gilads site.
http://www.giladorigami.com/BO_Conn.html

It's iso-area folding, and moderately complex; very stylish and elegant. It also has the virtue of really looking like it's intended subject.

This is the plane I fold when people start talking about paper planes disparagingly!

[TriKri]

But $107.82 at amazon.com for one book? It must be large, how many models does it feature? I am only looking for one model though.

[Kafar]

Autor: Chaquet José Maria
Model: Messerschmit Bf 109
Diagram: http://design.origami.free.fr/bestof/ch ... rscmit.pdf

[InsomniacFolder]

Whoa!
Is Origami for the Connoisseur over $100 now.

My copy cost me £8.45 a couple of years back from Amazon.co.uk.

But yes, it seems as though this book is now very expensive.

It is a great book, ~60 models, only two are planes (The other is a space shuttle - again by Kawasaki).

So, unless you can find a cheap copy somewhere, I guess you're right, it's not worth it for the single model.

Here's hoping it's reissued soon.

[TriKri]

Hm, interesting, maybe I should have bought the book too a couple of years back then!

By the way (if you didn't already know), I saw a few days ago that Japan has started to test space shuttles using origami models, if I understand it correctly, and apparently they have had some help from the Japan Origami Airplane Association: Se this LiveLeak video.