| The Public Paperfolding History Project
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| The Swallow | |||||||
| This page is being used to
collect information about the history of the two sheet
paper plane design, often known as the Swallow, in which
one sheet forms the wings and another the tail. Please
contact me if you know any of this information is
incorrect or if you have any other information that
should be added. Thank you. There is a separate page for the Dove (a single-sheet version of the Swallow folded from an oblong). ********** 1917 As far as I know this design first appeared in the November 1917 issue of Popular Mechanics magazine.
********** 1920 Will Blyth's 'Paper Magic', published by C Arthur Pearson, London in 1920, contains diagrams for an essentially similar design.
********** 1923 Diagrams for 'Schwalbe' (Swallow) appear in 'Falten und Formen mit Papier' by Richard Rothe which was published by Deutscher Verlag für Jugend und Volk in Vienna and Leipzig in 1923.
********** The same book also contains instructions for folding a variant 'Taube' (Pigeon).
********** 1927 As 'Die Schwalbe' (The Swallow) in 'Lustiges Papierfaltbüchlein' by Johanna Huber, which was published by Otto Maier in Ravensburg, Germany, probably in 1927.
********** 1928 As 'The Airplane', in Murray and Rigney's 'Fun with Paper Folding', published by the Fleming H Revell Company, New York in 1928. This version uses a tiny cut to create ailerons at the end of the tail.
********** 1932 In 'Winter Nights Entertainments' by R M Abraham, which was first published by Constable and Constable in London in 1932
********** As 'L'Avion', in Booklet 5 of 'Images a Plier', a series of 6 booklets published by Librairie Larousse in Paris in 1932.
********** 1933 As 'Hirondelle' in 'Jeux de pliages' by Ferdinand Krch, which was published by Flammarion in Paris in 1933.
********** 1936 As 'Flieger' in 'Allerlei Papierarbeiten' by Hilde Wulff and Carola Babick, which was published in Leipzig and Berlin in 1936.
********** 1937 In 'Paper Toy Making' by Margaret Campbell, which was first published by Sir Isaac Pitman and Sons Ltd in London, probably in 1937, although both the Foreword and Preface are dated 1936, which argues that the book was complete at that date contains diagrams for a version in which the tail is shaped by curving cuts rather than straight line folds and the nose is formed / weighted by the use of a cut.
********** As 'Aeroplano' in 'El Plegado y Cartonaje en la Escuela Primaria' by Antonio M Luchia and Corina Luciani de Luchia, which was published by Editorial Kapelusz in Buenos Aires in 1940.
********** 1950 In the 1950 Rupert Annual under the heading 'How To Make A Paper Plane'.
********** 1956 As 'Gliders' in 'Paper Magic' by Robert Harbin, which was published by Oldbourne in London in 1956.
********** 1961 As 'Flieger' in 'Wir Falten' by Joachim Schönherr and Gerta Schumann, which was published by Rudolf Arnold Verlag in Leipzig in 1961.
********** 1963 As the 'Swallow' in the second edition of 'Het Grote Vouwboek' by Aart van Breda, which was published by Uitgeverij van Breda in 1963.
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