
The long tail and smooth stealthy glide of the sting ray paper airplane makes this plane a blast to fly.
The sting ray has a bunch of steps and can be a bit tricky check out the images below for help.
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This is a difficult paper airplane here are a few helpful pointers.
- This is a difficult paper plane to fold.
- Most of the viewing of the folding will be looking at the white side of the paper
- Steps 1, 14 and 15 involve cuts
- a bunch of the folds are creases
- on the first number fold then unfold
- on the second number leave the fold
- fold 4 and 9 require multiple folds to happen at simultaneously
- the tail is optional and tapes into the body, the paper plane flies well without the tail but it adds a cool feature
Pictures of the folding to help you get it folded, especially the tricky folds,
cut along #1 crease along lines 2-4 folding 2-4 should look like this creases 2-4 should like an X crease 3-4 in both direction pinch the edges of 3-4 together to make fold 4 all #4s need to fold at the same time after fold 4 it should look like this crease 6, 7 and fold 9 can be seen under the flaps formed by fold 5 fold and unfold both sides for fold 6 and folds 6 & 7 crease 8 is on this side crease 8 should line up with the corners formed by fold 5 fold crease 8 in both direction, this way and opposite back to the other side for fold 9 fold 9 is something of a pinch you will have to carefully work 6 & 7 to get 9 in place after fold 9 now go back and make fold 10 after fold 10fol fold 11, fold the plane in half fold 12 forms the wing try to be parallel with 11, try to fold just a bit of the nose and try to keep both wings symmetric make the wings flatcu make cuts for the flaps fold the flaps up to help hold the nose up in flight 15 make all of the cuts for the tail, 5 total fold the tail in half fold 17 then 18 over 17 (yeah I messed up the numbers) fold 19 try to roll the tail into a circle to give it some rigidity place the right up to fold of plane, add a piece of tape to hold it in but leave the nose to push the body of the plane open. DO NOT TAPE THE NOSE try to make the tail level and straight
I hope you have fun with this plane and please share it with your friends.