January 7

My father's father, Grandpa Lawrence, died when I was nine years old.  He taught many of his 19 grandchildren to fold this paper airplane.  So I've been folding this plane pattern for over 50 years.  Until I started this project I'd never thought of it as origami, but it is folded paper.  I guess I've technically been doing origami for over half a century.

I've folded this plane for the kids I babysat for as a teenager, for my own kids, for neighbor children.  It's by far the best flyer I've ever found....  Mary