Editing Paper plane (section)

===White Wings===
[[File:N-424 Paper Plane.gif|thumb|Ninomiya's "N-424" design from ''Jet Age Jamboree'' (1966). The glider fuselage is constructed from several laminations of paper glued together. The wings are of two laminations, and the tailplane and tailfin of a single lamination.]]
In Japan in the late 1960s, Professor [[Yasuaki Ninomiya]] designed an advanced type of paper aircraft, which were published in two books, ''Jet Age Jamboree'' (1966) and ''Airborne All-Stars'' (1967). Designs from these books were later sold as the 'White Wings' Series of paper glider packs from the 1970s to the present day.<ref>{{Cite news |last=Owen |first=Thomas |date=September 23, 1988 |title=LIGHT FLIGHT |work=[[The Christian Science Monitor]] |issn=0882-7729 |id={{ProQuest|1034592633}}}}</ref>

White Wings are a stark departure from conventional paper aircraft, in that their [[fuselage]]s and wings are paper templates cut and glued together. They were designed with the aid of low-speed aerodynamic engineering design principles. Construction of the models is of Kent paper, a grade of cartridge paper sold in Japan.

The early models were explicitly hand drawn, but by the 1980s these had their parts drafted with the use of [[CAD software]].

Ninomiya's designs also included, for the first time in any paper model, working propellers driven by airflow, in particular for his profile scale models of the [[Cessna Skymaster]] and [[Piaggio P.136]] of 1967. Noteworthy as well was the careful design of gliders so that they could fly without ballast – his [[F-4 Phantom II]] model is able to be flown immediately without recourse to paperclips etc.

The high performance gliders have fuselages that are kept rigid by the use of a [[balsa]] fuselage profile bonded to the paper components. The paper used is quite heavy, approximately twice the weight of standard drawing cartridge paper, but lighter than lightweight cardboard. Original White Wings were entirely paper, requiring patience and skill. Later however, balsa-wood fuselages were used, and White Wings were sold "pre-cut", making construction easier. The [[aerofoil]] used is a Göttingen 801 (curved plate), and a pattern is supplied as a cutout part of each kit.