Heavy dart template

Two pages on A4. The first is the sheet you fold: every crease, numbered in order. The second shows each step. Print at 100% (“actual size”), then fold the first page along its lines, printed side up to start.

Or fold it along on the page

Paper Plane Academy · Fast

How to fold the Heavy dart

10 folds · a little fiddly · one sheet of A4

Once the throw is spent, every paper plane is a glider powered by gravity. The heavy dart’s folded-down nose spends height fast: it goes far, then comes down quickly.

1
Fold the top edge down a little, for weight.
2
And once more.
3
Now a dart: the top left corner to the middle.
4
And the other one.
5
The new edge to the middle.
6
And the other one.
7
Fold it in half along the middle.
8
Fold the wing down, along the keel.
9
Turn it over.
10
And fold the other wing to match.
✓
Open the wings out, level with the keel, and throw it gently, straight ahead.

Crease it sharp. Line the edges up exactly, then run a fingernail along each fold.

If it dives, bend the back edges of the wings up a little.

If the nose rises, then drops, it’s stalling: bend the back edges down a little.