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The Executive Manual on the Construction of Paper Projectiles by Rik Olson, 1966

'The Executive Manual on the Construction of Paper Projectiles' by Rik Olson was published by The Pisani Press in San Francisco in 1966. It contains instructions for 14 paper planes and explains how to use stabilisers and ailerons to improve a plane's flight. There is also much miscellaneous material, some of which is obviously padding. The origin of paper planes is attributed to Baron Von Punchout, and his associates Ludwig and Schultz, who also appear as cut-out-and-paste-on pilots for the planes. There are also cut-out-and-paste-on wheels and other accessories. One curious aspect of the work is its frequent reference to the Ku Klax Klan in a way that the author clearly intends to be both satirical and derogatory but which to a modern reader seems badly conceived and to make light of the horrors they perpetrated against the black community. The paper plane designs are shown in the Analysis. The other pages are given at the foot of this page. It is probable that this work was the inspiration behind The First International Paper Airplane Competition, held in the following year. ******** ****** Analysis Plan A - The Basic ****** Plan B - PRZ-20A ****** Plan C - The Unpredictable ****** Plan D - Demolition Missile - The Paper Ball ****** Plan E - Executive 707 ****** Plan F - For Failure ****** Plan G - Flirt-G3 ****** Plan I - Intimate Interlude Special ****** Plan M - Faster ****** Plan O - Oppressed ****** Plan Q - The Hustler - The Paper Dart ****** Plan R - The Open Window ****** Plan V - Paul V-T-O ****** Plan Y - Yuletide Fling ****** Plan Z - Zany Zanzibar Zarkfin ****** Miscellaneous Pages ********