This document provides instructions for making a gliding airplane out of cardboard and drinking straws. The materials needed are a folder, drinking straw, coconut stick, ballpen cap, and small stones. The steps involve drawing and cutting out wings, stabilizers, and attaching them to the straw with a ballpen cap, stones, and coconut stick to create a simple glider. Some photos show the airplane successfully gliding through the air.

1. How To Make an Airplane Using Cardboard
Fitzmerl Duron
May 1, 2022
We’re going to make an airplane that can glide using cardboard and drinking straws :-)
Some of the most memorable things in our childhood is seeing our hand – made airplanes gliding
through the air in the middle of the empty lot at 4 PM after the school is over and we’re gonna make
one of those today!
It’s quite easy. All you need are:
ˆ a folder
ˆ a drinking straw
ˆ a thin coconut stick
ˆ a ballpen cap
ˆ a couple of small stones
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2. On how to make this gliding airplane, here are the steps:
Step 1: Draw the wings of the airplane on the folder.
Step 2: Cut out the drawn wings from the folder.
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3. Step 3: Draw the horizontal stabilizer of the airplane on the folder.
Step 4: Cut out the drawn horizontal stabilizer from the folder.
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4. Step 5: Draw the vertical stabilizer of the airplane on the folder.
Step 6: Cut out the drawn vertical stabilizer from the folder.
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5. Step 7: Attach the ballpen cap on the drinking straw.
Step 8: Staple the wings of the airplane on the drinking straw.
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6. Step 9: Staple the horizontal stabilizer of the airplane on the drinking straw.
Step 10: Bend the base of the vertical stabilizer then staple it on the drinking straw.
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7. Step 11: Staple the vertical stabilizer of the airplane on the drinking straw.
Step 12: Put some stones inside the ballpen cap to make the airplane slightly nose – heavy.
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8. Step 13: Insert a thin coconut stick in the drinking straw to give the airplane rigidity.
Step 14: The plane is ready to glide!
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9. Some improvements: You can make an elevator on the horizontal stabilizer so that nose of the
airplane would be slightly up, lengthening the time the airplane glides. Now that’s fun!
Here are some test flights...:-)
Figure 1: Look how good the plane flies!
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10. Figure 2: The plane’s going to land!...:-D
Figure 3: The plane starts to rise....
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11. Figure 4: He’s going to fly!...too bad he doesn’t have any engines...:-(
Figure 5: Coming down!!!
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12. Figure 6: This plane really likes to glide, doesn’t he?....:-)
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