Exquisite Interceptors

Rating:
Summary: Not so easy...
Review: Don't be fooled - these are not easy airplanes to make well!

I'm not a skiled origami artist, but I can fold most paper airplanes with great precision. The planes in this book lean more toward origami than functional paper airplanes.

The planes do look cool, but they're not the best performers in terms of flight.

To be fair, I'm not convinced that I've folded them well enough to really judge how well they should fly, but many of them have very small wings...

The planes do not require any cutting or glue, but they do need tape.

Another thing to note is that most of the planes require a ruler to find the location of the fold. There's nothing necessarily wrong with that, but I personally prefer to be able to just grab a piece of paper and turn it into a great flyer with no other tools.

Bottom line: if you want cool looking planes from a single uncut piece of paper, this book is for you. If you want great flyers, you may want to go elsewhere.

Rating:
Summary: great, challenging origami planes
Review: These are definitely more than 'normal' paper airplanes. You MUST know origami, and rather well, to make the majority of these planes - which is exactly why I love it! There are almost no other books out there like this. If you are up to the challenge, the planes look awesome (they look like REAL planes!) when made correctly and fly pretty well.