Michael LaFosse's Origami Airplanes: 28 Easy-to-Fold Paper Airplanes from America's Top Origami Designer!: Includes Paper Airpla

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In this new paperback edition of his popular book Planes for Brains, LaFosse and his long-time collaborator, Richard Alexander, present twenty-eight exciting airplane models that incorporate the innovative functional and aesthetic details that have become his hallmark. Boasting an exquisite sense of proportion and balance, an ingenious nose and fuselage design system, and moving parts including faceted flaps, ailerons, canards and spoilers-these models are dazzling works of art that fly incredibly well and look great too! LaFosse and Alexander provide detailed step-by-step instructions for each model along with expert advice on: * How to select and prepare the best paper for each plane * Tips on launching different types of planes to get the best possible glide * A discussion of aerodynamics as it relates to paper airplane performance * A glossary of technical terms, material resources, and much more The book's companion DVD allows folders of all levels to pause and replay the steps as needed to create each airplane at a comfortable pace. "There are so many cute plane ideas that can be created...The directions are simple, step by step. The photos are easy to follow..." -Test Try Results blog

Michael G. LaFosse decided he would be an origami artist in 1971, after reading (and re-reading) a Readers' Digest article by Leland Stowe, about the amazing folded art of Japanese Master Akira Yoshizawa. Michael's uncle Norman had folded paper airplanes with him when Michael was a toddler, and his dad, Jerry LaFosse, was a photographer in the US Air Force. LaFosse burst onto the paper airplane scene in 1984 with his self-published pamphlet, "Aero-gami: F-14 Tomcat Fighter." A biologist by training, he went on to become one of the most celebrated natural history origami artists, making his own handmade papers and creating hundreds of designs now seen in exceptional exhibitions and published in dozens of books, kits, and videos. Richard L. Alexander was caught up in the ultralight aviation craze in the mid-1980s and built a fiberglass / foam / graphite / Kevlar composite, retractable gear, amphibious, canard airplane from a kit (the XTC Hydrolight, designed by Dan Diehl, of Jenks, OK). He met LaFosse in 1988, and together they have produced exhibitions and publications about paper art and origami. Alexander has worked with LaFosse full time since 2003, and since then has made all of the Origamido handmade paper. Alexander also teaches and designs origami, while being responsible for photography, videography, commercial projects and managing the Origamido Studio gallery spaces and exhibitions.

"Fly faster and farther with some of the best-looking and most-ingenious paper airplanes ever designed! LaFosse and Alexander's unique fuselage lock is origami magic, and they are a pleasure to fold." --Jeffrey Rutzky, author of Awesome Paper Planes "This is a marvelous collection of designs that are fun to fold and easy to fly, clearly explained by one of the great modern masters of the origami art." --Robert J. Lang, author of Origami Design Secrets "LaFosse and Alexander have built up an enviable reputation for producing top quality origami products, carefully and expertly crafted for folders of all levels. Their work is an inspiration to fellow authors like myself and Planes For Brains is no exception--page after page of exemplary origami planes, beautifully explained and illustrated." --Nick Robinson, author or Origami For Dummies and World's Best Origami