Hello folks! Yes, I’m still learning how to make paper airplanes – and what I find surprises me.

First of all, there’s only a relative few basic paper airplane designs – a few gliders, some darts, etc. Pretty much all the hundreds of plane designs out there resemble these basic few in some way or another.

And secondly, I’m finding that it is not how well you fold the paper airplane that determines its gliding (or darting) worth. It’s how well you can adjust it, and fine tune it. That’s the secret of good paper airplanes!

With that, I introduce the LIGHTNING. I have no idea why it’s called that, for it is a slow glider through and through…. but oh well.

This guy is best thrown at very low speed. I found that with a wee bit of adjusting, I could get the LIGHTNING to fly a long time.