How to Fold Five Incredible Paper Airplanes | WIRED 

i've never stopped a video so many times.

The camera cuts make this really hard to follow :-(

Just a tip: I know these are simple folds, but for instructional videos it’s super helpful to use paper that has only one coloured side, or at least a different color on the other side, to differentiate between sides and more easily see the folds you are making :)

boomerang 1 00:09 boomerang 2 05:06 The Bat Plane 11:02 Tumbling Wing 15:21 Word Reccord 17:40 (I know this is in the description but this is just a handy book mark for me so please ignore)

Omg stop changing camera angles it’s so hard to follow

And the best tie of the year award goes to...

Instructions were unclear, now I have 47 pet bats in my house

Him: "to start we're gonna use the standard US Letter size paper" Me: *cries in A4*

Me: folds paper in Half and looks up Video: so there you go and final crease

who else got COMPLETELY lost on the first one?

*A person who took Paper Airplanes seriously as a career* : Folding airplanes preciously *Camera Man* :Showing how good he is at camera by tilting and changing angles *Us* (literally nothing to say)

Instructions unclear: ate a bat and started a global pandemic

Happy to see some love for paper airplanes

I just finished the first Boomerang Plane. I flew it. And the only thing that came back to me was my belief that I did something wrong. It flew like a regular paper plane, but smoother.

Dude this is cool but what's with the changing of angles, it's so hard to follow

15:42 "If you're into the whole metric thing?" I feel attacked

glad to know that I’m not the only one struggling here

This video rocks like a pendulum! Been making flying origami my whole life and I still learned a thing or two! Thanks master Collins!

I like it how his tie is also paper plane themed!

Time stamps: Boomerang - 0:11 Boomerang 2 - 5:07 Bat Plane - 11:07 Tumbling Wing - 15:24 Suzanne (World Record Plane) - 17:44 Like to help others see.

Him: Now we are going to the complicated part Me: uh oh

Let’s use the easiest color paper for people to see, YELLOW

The bat plane is what Bob Ross would call "Happy Mistakes"

I'm infuriated with trying to see what's going on with the yellow paper without seeing the creases

0:14 The Boomerang Plane 5:14 The Boomerang Plane 2 11:15 The Bat Plane 15:36 The Tumbling Wing 17:45 World Record Paper Plane "Susane"

K i folded the paper in half...

15:34 "Fall in an organized fashion" Buzz Lightyear : Aroused noises

4:45 I have the best paper airplane knowledge. I also have no friends.

I love the "If you are into that metric thing" yeah 90% of world is into that thing

Just tell me who was the Cameraman?😠😠

bro the the creases are invisible and the cameraman thinks hes David Attenborough -14/10 for me

Brain: Ok, got it. Hands: No,you don't!

stop changing the camera jesus christ it is so hard to follow it when you do that

Some people fold a paper airplane when they’re bored, this man folded himself a career.

21:06 lmao you can hear the plane crashing before the camera cuts

Instructions unclear, ended up making star destroyers.

The paper is so bright I can hardly tell what is even going on half the time >_< Also, the camera angles constantly change which is making it harder to follow along...

Followed all the instructions carefully. I ended up making the infinity gauntlet :(

I can not wait to build some of these for my grand daughters. They are going to love this!

I didn't think this needed an epilepsy warning. The angles proved me wrong.

lets call it what it is: *aerospace origami*

This mans got some lucky kiddos

Well i made the boomerang plane, like 1/8 tries it actually returned as intended so yee haw

Camera angles are bad I wasted 1 hour on the glider ended with giving up

He never lost connection with his inner child

harder than the furniture at ikea

I just made the boomerang 2 ( it's 5 am here ) for the first time and it came back and now I'm sweating playing with it non stop 😂

now i've wasted lots of paper and i'm crying. what a nice throwback to my college years thx

6:35 Great explanation just a really really great explanation

*30 minutes later* Boomerang plane flying like a regular plane....

I’ve got a funky origami plane of my original design that I call the F-23 because it vaguely resembles the YF-23 Black Widow. It’s not a phenomenal flier or anything, but it’s cool looking. I also have another one deceptively named Victory. It’s a complex plane with long broad low set wings and a tail and winglets and elevators. If built properly it can fly well, but it’s incredibly temperamental and also has a high chance of not flying particularly well. That said it’s fairly quick and likes to glide off high places with a gentle launch sometimes at a slight downward angle. And then of course you have your classic Flying needle which is an exercise in what happens when you throw a thin heavy thing really hard. It was my first. It’s a joke plane that everybody makes at least once. It’ll put your eye out if you stand in front of it.

I wish to thank him for telling us the recipe for world record airplane

Yup that looks about right Fly’s just like I thought it would I didn’t think it was gonna fly

This is the content I subscribed for.

I made 4 of the five, the bat one worked, not as good as i wanted but it worked, and the world record one, such a nice plane

1:14 Him: The most complicated part Me: Wait *ｗｈａｔ ｔｈｅ ｆｕｃ*

Rip airplane boomerang, you flew so majestically over the trees and never came back 😢

him: fold a crease me: fold a what?

Mr. Paper Airplane, I love all your planes.

Wrong camera angle for tutorial

It's a joy to watch somebody talk about their passion, whatever that passion may be

My bat plane was an absolute failure...

I’ve been making paper planes for almost 6 years, and these are the coolest paper planes i’ve ever seen

I can just imagine Suzanne bragging to her friends that her husband named a plane after her

me: this is going to be eaaaaassssyy *60 Seconds Later* wait so how the fu-

Why is a 64 year old semiretired aircraft / aerospace engineer watching this wonderful video ? --> I was bored . Time for a beer and make some airplanes . Thanx for your video . Rockwell International .

Bro this man changes the angles every one second that i can even do a fold

I learn that John Collin looks like John Goodman the actor, only the Paper Airplane man is slimmer and younger. Thanks for the instructions. It's never too old to be young.

tried everything 4 times. I need to investigate my plane. All of em went somewhere and never came back.

Thank you Wired for introducing me to this guy! I made the flapping bat and it worked so good that my dog got excited and tried to hunt it down!

this guy makes my favorite paper planes!

Should use dark papers, for we can see the folds and crease clearly.

What's the camera mans problem?... we get it... you can move around... but we want to see each fold hes making not how awesome you are at angles😡🤬

I ain't got time to make these but I love how passionate this man is, could listen to him folding planes for days.

Who else noticed his paper airplane tie

Incredible! Imagination & execution.. with good number of trials, final understanding & perfection is truly a good marriage b/w science & art. Beautiful ❤️👍

Probably the most useful youtube video I've ever come across, not kidding.

My paper aeroplane landed before take off :(

This guy is a a genius. Ironic how the record plane its almost like the most common universal ariplane around the world

I just wanted to shout out to the editor of this video: I know you're getting roasted here in the comments section, people saying it's too hard to follow, etc. As a professional video editor myself, I just wanted to voice my opinion that you did a great job. You kept the pace of the video alive and in my opinion the cuts were made in places that made a lot of sense. I followed the instructions for all of the planes in this video (except for the Tumbling Wing) and I didn't find them hard to follow at all. I did have to pause the video a couple times, which is to be expected for an instructional video of this type. But I honestly think that all the people who are complaining about it being too hard to follow just suck at paperfolding. I've folded origami since I was at most five years old, so I understood the terms and techniques he was using and I didn't even really need to look at the video that much; I mostly just relied on his voice and only looked up at the video when he was referencing a specific corner or crease. You probably don't need me to tell you, but you didn't do a poor job editing this video. I think it's simply a case of target audience mismatch: an experienced paperfolder like me can follow along no problem, but the normies of RU-vid struggle. Thank you and the rest of your team for a great video!

Put it on 0.5 speed, I find it easier to follow :)

Why did nobody fix the audio, they had time to switch cameras a billion times and reuse the same clips of visuals *BUT NOBODY FIXED THE POPING AUDIO*

Thanks for the Suzanne plane I threw it on top of my hill and literally flew so far and straight especially if there's not much wind

This is the best guy making paper airplane

My boomerang rocket went to trash and never returned back 😣

Him: You gotta keep these corners in the center. Okay and now.. Me: Wait, wait! What if we can't?!

wow this man is so good at paper planes.

This guy is a legend 👌

what happened to the good old three steps to make airplane?

Its amazing how people in these videos always make creases prefectly and never make creases uneven.

heart beats stopped of this

My kids are going to love these

If you buy the book it's easier to see what he's doing. It's actually the kind of book that sits well on a personal library shelf (PLS).

I enjoy long walks in the beach and flying paper plains.

I propose to include this in job interview. Those that complete proves to have attention to detail and delicacy.

john collin is the bestttttttttttttttt!

Best paper airplane what I came for: 17:46

I made a plane very very similar to the world record one. I'm so proud of myself. The main difference is that mine uses a 60° fold for the start. Flight patterns look almost identical if you fold up the very edge of the wing. It flies great.

It's amazing. I didn't used to do all that for plane to return to me but some planes I used to make used to do that anyhow. It's something to do with science I believe 😅

After 30 min. . . . . and I have made the worlds finest and most accurate crashing machine