Paper airplane replica

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This is a paper airplane that I was tought to fold when I was a kid of about 12 or 13 years old. It is a design that stuck with me ever since and it's actualy the only design I use when folding a paper airplane as it nearly always flies quite well. So, I was wondering how a plastic version would fly. I used a sheet of A4 paper and folded a paper version first and tested it's flight pattern first for a fairly neutral trajectory before slightly stalling and diving just a little. Depending on the wing section widths it could either div too much from te go or stall too easily. The best is normaly to aim for no stall or a very slight stall. A slight stall normally helps a bit when it goes into a slight dive as it usually pulls out of the dive until it stalls again and dive again. Depending on the height it was thrown from it can fly quite far with this stall/dive effect. Due to printing in plastic I decided to add a hook under the nose to launch it with an elastic band. So I thought it's only fair to also do some "tool" to attach the elastc band to, to allow for easy operation. I am still waiting for it to finish printing...so I don't yet know if it will fly Instructions Easiest to print this plane is on it's tail end. After printing remove the small piece under the "tail fin". You'll see I put in a gap between it and the wings and it should break off fairly easy from the body as I "weakened" that joint. This was only done for print support purposes. Cut off the 1mm "support" at the back off the hook under the nose. Prit and fit the elastic hook.STL to anything with 10mm diameter to hold in your hand for launching the plane. Attach an elastic band to this hook. Now, hook the elastic into the launch hook of the plane, pull and release and watch the plane fly. Caution: when using the "launcher" you should do it outdoors. Indoors the plane might just break whn it crashes...not to speak of other breakages that might occurr...