Fantastic Flight: Make and Fly 24 Original Paper Airplanes Using No Glue or Cutting

I've had The Gliding Flight since I was young, so when I found out that the author had a second book of paper airplanes, I bought it immediately. Fantastic Flight doesn't quite contain as many consistently unique and quality planes of The Gliding Flight, it makes up for it with its stellar planes, my favorite being the Super Canard, which never fails to wow with its looks and its flight. Definitely worth buying.

Do you have any idea how much fun paper airplanes are? How much fun they can be? Sure, everybody knows how to make your basic paper rocket. I take my nephew Devon to OMSI (Oregon Museum of Science and Industry) all the time, because I have a good friend who works there and we get in for free. They have this exhibit where kids make paper airplanes and toss them into a wind machine to see how well they fly. I have always failed miserably at this. Not Anymore. Devon and I took this book along with us on our last outing to OMSI. Of course, we'd practiced with a lot of the planes in the book. When we got there we weren't only pros, we were ringers. We really impressed the folks. And we had a lot of fun doing it. This is a book that cries out to be used and abused with a child. Mine already shows signs of wear as it's made many of the kids on my block happy and made me sort of the local paper rocket mama. My grandad's even made a plane or two (or three or four) from this book. He particularly likes the Looper. Devon's fave is the Dart and I sort of lean to Phoenix Lock, lotta steps in that one, but it's pretty doggone neat. If you've got a kid in your life between the ages of two to ninety-two, then this is the book for you. Oh yes, you might also want to check out John Collins first paper airplane book The Gliding Flight, too. Review submitted by Captain Katie Osborne