Fly'N Things --
Amazing Paper Airplanes

Paper models & historical restorations by Phil Koopman Sr.

A brief history of paper models General instructions & building tips Please look at the bottom of this page for copyright and fair use information. Paper/card modeling FAQ (off-site link)

Original Flying Paper Airplanes

These are scans of cut, fold & fly books that you can download, print, and build for yourself. They are subject to a "free" license subject to attribution. For more about the copyright, see: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

• Penny-Weight Flying Paper Airplaines: cut, fold & fly -- WWII Pacific, Volume 1, Phil Koopman Sr.
  • Download the whole book as a printable acrobat file; released under CC BY SA 4.0.
• Penny-Weight Flying Paper Airplaines: cut, fold & fly -- WWII Pacific, Volume 2, Phil Koopman Sr.
  • Download the whole book as a printable acrobat file; released under CC BY SA 4.0.

• Dime-Weight Flying Paper Airplaines: cut, fold & fly -- WWII Pacific Phil Koopman Sr.
  • Download the whole book as a printable acrobat file; released under CC BY SA 4.0.

F117 Stealth Fighter
(experts only!)

Historical Materials

Presented as-is.

1911 Vin Fiz (first transcontinental airplane)

Important Notes:

• My e-mail volume is huge (hundreds of e-mails per day), and I don't have time to answer every inquiry. PLEASE read the below!
• I am not the author of this material; it was created by my late father, Phil Koopman Sr.. I am making these available as his legacy.
• If you want to reprint, build, or otherwise use these models the following rules apply. For the models under CC BY 4.0 (the scanned books), NO PERMISSION IS NECESSARY due to the license. In particular, if you are a teacher or youth group volunteer and want to use these for an activity in your class or non-profit group, there is no need to ask permission. (See here: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). For other models no license will be granted, and license requests will be disregarded. Fair use provisions in the copyright apply as usual.

Last update: 4/26/2020