I saw this video on Instagram, I'm going to try to make a White Wings hybrid with propulsion.

I’m trying to think of a book about how to make fighter-jet-style paper airplanes that was published in the late 80s to early 90s. I don’t have the author or title, but it was landscape format (short edge binding) and bound with a blue GBC comb binding. The first half had instructions for a number of planes, and the back half had removable plates pre-printed with the fold lines for each model. It used dashed lines for valley folds and doubled dash lines for mountain folds (as opposed to the traditional dash-and-dot lines typically used for mountain folds). There were models for f-4, f-14, f-15, f-16, and others.

I’ve found a few low-res scans of some pages, and I still remember how to make one of the designs. Here’s a photo of one of them (as best as I can remember decades later) made out of blank letter-size paper).

If anyone has any leads on the author or title of the original book, or knows where I could find more scans, I’d love to try these again! Thanks in advance.

and a little mirage on there too

Whitewings paper airplanes were extremely popular in the 80s and 90s. You would cut out the pieces, glue them together and then fly these gliders across the length of an entire football field! They have been unavailable for more than 20 years, but now they are coming back!

I have secured the license, sourced the specialty cardstock paper, and reproduced all 15 designs from Volume 1. All that's left is to manufacture the kits and Im hoping that I can mail one out to all of the regulars in this subreddit. Please check out my Kickstarter project to find out how you can get your own relaunched Whitewings paper airplane kits.

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/jakeolefsky/whitewings-excellent-paper-airplanes-are-back

These are perfect for collectors, parents, teachers, or anyone who loves hands-on STEM fun. Happy to answer any questions about the project. Please help spread the word by upvoting this post and sharing with your friends.

Thought the community would like this - my dad made a bunch of paper model airplanes (and support vehicles) as part of his teenage. He wasnt exacrly rich and this was as per him, his way of having toys. Made them in his adult life as well, including some model ones for me (whcih unfortunately were destroyed)

Enjoy. Hope this doesnt break community rules. (Pardon the flags/markings on the planes.Not a first world country so whatever pictures were obtained thru second hand mags were uses for this)