Incredible Paper Flying Machines

From dream to flight - re-enact the entire history of aviation with your own amazing paper dirigibles, hot-air balloons, bombers, rocket ships, and more! You'll learn all about the principles of flight, and the inventive men who figured them out, as you construct the most unusual fleet of flying machines ever. All appear in magnificent exploded diagrams and with cut-out photography to make construction easy. The best place to start is with the ornithopter, imagined by Leonardo da Vinci in the 1400s and the Montgolfier brothers' balloon. These cool-looking models won't actually take off (hang them as mobiles or display them on a shelf, instead), but other replicas will, like Lindberg's famous Spirit of St. Louis (if you forego the wheels), the X-15 Spaceplane, the F4 Phantom Fighter, the Hawker Harrier, and Voyager.