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Double-Spiked Destroyer

 Double-Spiked Destroyer
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Subjective analysis:
This flies rather well for an aircraft based on the classic dart. Its most remarkable features are its ability to attract raised eyebrows and to make people who don't wear glasses nervous.

Note: the basic canard design for this aircraft is from the book Flying Origami by Nakamura Eiji.

Folding instructions:

  • dashed lines indicate valley folds
  • solid lines indicate mountain folds
  • congruent angles are indicated

  1. This is a rather ingenious way to begin folding an airplane. The author of Flying Origami manages to make the canard wingspan equal to the entire width of the sheet of paper. The classic canard (folded from the dart base) has rather short canards..
    initial fold
  2. It's still not clear what's going on, but the symmetry will soon emerge.
    a wing takes shape
  3. Now to begin forming the nose.
    another wing formed
  4. Note how it vaguely resembles a sort of "second fundamental" of the glider base. From here, just fold the nose down and create the fuselage and tail as desired.
    nose formation
  5. We now have the canard aircraft, which is an interesting plane all to itself. This version with a full-span canard is much more stable than the traditional canard, thanks to Nakamura Eiji's optimization work.
    Canard aircraft
  6. Fold the canards back as close to the fuselage as desired and prepare for a tricky manuever
    spike roots
  7. Origami veterans will recognize this fold from the classic crane base. It's a neat way to fold the paper in a direction it really doesn't want to go.
    spike formation
  8. Be good! And if you can't be good... be careful!
    Double-Spiked Destroyer

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