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" The Straight Plane"

Newest Plane 08-05-02

The Newest plane to come to "jline paper airplanes" is the "Straight Plane" sent in by Joe.

Help I think you will enjoy this one, But I'm trying something new here and need your help. This web page you're looking at now is only available to members that have joined my news letter, what I need is for you to send me an e-mail telling what you think about the plane and what problems if any that you had in folding the plane

Simple, and it will help all the others fold the plane more easily. Thanks Judson Lee

Special thanks goes out to all who joined the mailing list

	# 1	Start with a sheet of paper measuring 8 1/2 x 11 inch. or 21.5 x 28 cm in half. Red line indicates were to fold. See illustration.

	# 2	Fold the top two corners down. See illustration.

	# 3	Fold the corners back out. See illustration

	# 4	Fold along red lines. See illustration.

	# 5	In this step you need to fold at the red line. measure from top of nose 4 1/2 in. or 11.5 cm to know were to make the fold. Important ! Turn your plane over and then fold nose down. Crease well. fold back up and turn the plane back over.

	# 6	Were arrow starts, bring this to were arrow ends.

	# 7	Do the same for this step, Nose will fold to the left side.

	# 8	Bring nose to center position. Separate were blue arrows indicate and then bring the nose down shown with the red arrow.

	# 9	Your plane should look like the illustration at this point.

	#10	At red line fold up. Crease well.

	#11	Take this fold you just made and fold it under the wings.

	#12	Fold the plane in half making sure the step you just folded ends up on the inside of folded plane. At red line fold wing down, 1 in. or 2.5 cm

	#13	Turn your plane over and do the same for this wing.

	#14	Fold side fins up. Measure 1 3/4 in. or 3.0 cm from wing tip and fold. Do the same for the other wing tip.

	#15	The tail, It's not needed but you can add it if your plane needs a bit of extra lift. Image is from the Raptor but the process of making the tail is the same for this plane. Folding the tail. Here you can see a green line, fold along this line several times back and forth to make this line very well creased. Now push in so that it ends up between the wings.

Make sure to see smoothing the lines special tips for this plane!!!

I hope you have enjoyed folding this plane. If for any reason you have problems understanding the illustrations or text, please let us know! In doing so, your comments may help others understand how to fold this plane more easily. Thanks, for suggestions use the feedback link below.