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The previous plane was made from legal size paper, 8-1\/2 x 14 inches.\u00a0 This plane is made from 11 x 14-1\/4 inches paper, or a scaled-up size from 8-1\/2 x 11 inches letter-size sheets.\u00a0 The folding technique is the tapered wing style.\u00a0 In tapered wing folding, you fold in half each way to start, then fold over the two front triangular corners and cut them off with a scissors.\u00a0 Flip and rotate the pieces and place them to match the remaining triangles on the forward section of the sheet.\u00a0 A small piece of tape at the center of the sheet to hold everything in place, then fold over the very forward tip about an eighth inch, or 3mm.\u00a0 Keep folding over and over until you reach the long fold that will be the leading edge of the wing.\u00a0 Run a strip of tape along the trailing edge of the fold to keep it closed.\u00a0 Press down hard on the fold to flatten it.\u00a0 The wing is now thick in the center and thin at the ends.<\/p>\n

Cut out a barnaby shape from one side.\u00a0 Take this cutout and mark the other side.\u00a0 If you attempt to fold the plane is half, the center fold will crack.\u00a0 This extra thickness in the center keeps the plane stiff in flight.\u00a0 Fold in the ends about an inch and a half, and then fold over.\u00a0 Unfold to make the C wing ends.<\/p>\n

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I like to take a snip about a quarter of the way in at the end of the wing to give the trailing edge more room for camber.\u00a0 Finish off the barnaby as usual; just be careful to balance the folds of the tail.\u00a0 I usually run strips of tape where the fuselage curves, to give it extra stiffness:\u00a0 a strip of tape along the keel will also help.<\/p>\n

This flies much better than the yellow-pad legal-size plane.\u00a0 Capable of tight turns, adjustable to wide turns, very sensitive in roll (be careful balancing the plane, the control forces do not scale linearly with speed, so only small adjustments).\u00a0 It should be fine indoors and out, but looks to be happiest out-of-doors.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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