BR 6 - Review Of Fabulous Paper Gliders By Norman Schmidt

Date Reviewed: 1 May 2008

Book Name: Fabulous Paper Gliders

Author: Norman Schmidt

ISBN #: 1-895569-23-0

Year of original book / Year of my copy - 1998/1998

Pages - 96

Cover Price - $ 12.95

Named Planes - The Paperwing, Glasflugel Dragonfly 201, Lilienthal Glider 1895, Primary Glider, Orlik, Grunua baby, Waco CG-4, Colditz Cock, Schweizer SGS 1-26, Schleicher Ka-6, Lark SI 28B2, Salto H 101, Solitare Canard, Genesis, PW-5Smyk, Schemper-Hirth Nimbus 4th

Level of difficulty - (1-10) 8

Comments:

I enjoy Norman books. He always has a large aircraft flying skills, researched and highly informative text. This book is no different and stands apart from many paper airplane books that inspired it focuses on the paper airplanes from real sailors.

All the paper planes are essentially gliders, so they seem to imitate their real cousins. Watching the making Waco flying aircraft, the old black-WW2white newsreels spring to life.

This book includes plans for 16 aircraft. All require cutting with a scissors, a sharp craft knife, 65lb cards or 5x8 index cards, and some form of glue. A glue stick will work well. The idea is that you can trace or photocopy the design onto plain paper, then transfer them to 5x8 cards or index cards to cut out. DO NOT CUT OUT THE BOOK motifs! It is not necessary. During his working method, it is laborious and requires a lot of steps.What I did was to scan every plan, and put them into a Word document. So if I make it one of its airplanes, I print off the plane at 65lb carton, and cut it out. No need to follow or to transfer, and I can make unlimited copies. Two 5x8 plans to fit on a 8x11 sheet. A bonus is that I expanded the designs, so that a plan fits on an 8x11 sheet, and you can see the result in the images of the Lilienthal glider and the Waco Glider too. It is a beautiful, large area andwith a little strengthening of key sectors, they fly AWESOME!

So it is something that I is not about the book? Not much. Apart from the fact that the planes scan (boring, but) one-off exercise, there is nothing about not how. Lots of good technical data, some personal stories and good history of the aircraft, it makes for an enjoyable read. Combined with great designs to fly I am happy to forgive, in this book a score of 10 out of 10 points. I would recommend this book adults and older children(mainly because of the work involved knives). However, the aircraft a joy for children of all ages are flying, and I strongly encourage parents what they enjoy with their young children.

Thanks To : the house