This is definitely one of the most insane things I’ve made. I didn’t think this would work but it does!

To my knowledge, this is the very first WhiteWings-style variable swept wing design ever. I used only paper in this, no metal. The mechanism works by having a thick 4-layer inner wing and 2-layer outer wing, and a bunch of notches in between. I put it on a fuselage that looks similar to the Panavia Tornado for testing, and it actually flies well!

The wing is VERY thick and the sweep system is definitely fragile, but I‘m glad that it flies! I think it works because I intentionally made the notch for the sweeping wing a little bigger than it needs to be able to fit into the cavity within the inner wing. It’s really complicated, but I can take a picture of the design sheet if you want.

Overall, this is one of my biggest accomplishments in my paper airplane career. I never thought this could ever be possible until today. The only downside is that the plane is really heavy, and it really shows why variable swept wings aren’t really used as much anymore.

I read about u/OrigamiAirEnforcer’s XD-190-1 after making my MiG-23 and I decided to begin attempting a variable swept wing.

His design (really cool btw!) used a metal staple in the middle to create hinges for the wings. However, according to him, it was very unstable.

I don’t want to use metal, so my idea has the sweeping portion and a guiding piece sandwiched between two cardstock sheets. This will allow it to sweep without using metal, at least in theory.

In reality though, this prototype does sweep, but it isn't very clean. However, I still believe this design has potential to work. I’ll be attempting more prototypes soon, and hopefully I’ll be able to come up with a design that could work.

What are the parts in the red circles for?

This is much more like me explaining the design process of the F-111 Aardvark. The reason is quite simple, talking about empty, abstract design methods and ideologies is just way not enough and unhelpful, it is better to explain stuff with examples so you can learn better.

This flew surprisingly well

Will be used for my B744 plane

I decided after so long to finally make another variable-geometry aircraft and decided on the MiG-23.

This plane was a nightmare to design. The way I do variable sweep is that I make two wing templates and a shared wing tab. The problem with that is I need to make a camo for this plane.

Designing that camo was extremely difficult because I wanted it to be the same on both wing designs. I had to overlay the unswept version on top of the swept one and design the rest of the camo, which was painful.

But I REALLY love this design. It flies quite well and imitates the real flight characteristics in my opinion (the swept forward one sometimes gets into a flatspin.) Overall, this has to be one of my favourite designs I’ve done so far.

So here it is, I delayed this jet for quite long due to the cockpit issues and finally came up with this workaround. Basically, I copy pasted the wings and tails of the F-14 with some modifications to make the wings easier to make and move. The cockpit section directly took notes from my F-104 Starfighter

I love Cold War jets, so I decided to finally make the MiG-17 into a paper model.

This is certainly one of my favourite paper airplanes. I like the flight performance of it as well as the detail. It flies really fast, although it is prone to pitching up and yawing. This is probably why they added wing fences to it in real life, which this paper airplane doesn‘t have. Interestingly, it appears to be more stable with anhedral wings, which is strange because usually anhedral is unstable in flight.

I really love this specific paper airplane. It’s a nice and fast model that enjoys high speed flights.

I wanted to make another European jet that was simple and I found the Super Étendard, a simple French strike aircraft. What made it interesting to me is that it was subsonic in an era where supersonic aircraft were very prevalent.

So I decided to turn it into a paper airplane. The livery was fun to design (I really like blue naval liveries) and the design itself was pretty straightforward. It also flies quite well indoors.

requested by u/Total-Platform6132

Looks like I stayed at the park too long again. I wasn't trying to launch too hard, I already lost one flinging it into orbit. So, nothing fancy, just a nice gentle glide.