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James May, known as Captain Slow on the popular Top Gear BBC program, recently shared his design for an “ultimate” paper airplane, complete with winglets and elevons, created from a sheet of standard A4 letter-size paper. “It’s a sort of cross between a Vulcan bomber and a Fairey Delta, and if you do it properly, it’s a good flyer,” May told the RadioTimes. May, who flies his own sport aircraft, is also working on a project to build a balsa-wood glider model and fly it across the English Channel — about 22 miles. Click through for May’s illustrated instructions for the “ultimate” flying piece of paper.
Click on the image at right for a larger version of May’s instructions. Earlier this year, the video of a flight of a giant paper airplane with a 45-foot-wingspan became one of AVweb‘s most-clicked-on stories. In February, a new world record was set with an indoor flight of more than 200 feet for a paper airplane design.
