Open all hatches. Extend all flaps and drag fins.

Wings, flaps, air speed, altitude pedals for the rudder.

An SVG themable digital clock

We're going to learn how to make one flap.

If I make the flaps skinnier, I can use a bit less paper.

This base has a lot of flaps in it.

I could use that for a leg, an arm, anything like that.

Well, there are other ways of making a flap.

I can use it for something else.

And you can see there, it needs a quarter circle of paper to make a flap.

And if I make the flap from the middle, it uses a full circle.

But we're going to start small.

Fold it in half, fold it in half, fold it again, until it gets long and narrow, and then we'll say at the end of that, that's a flap.

Well, if I unfold it and go back to the crease pattern, you can see that the upper left corner of that shape is the paper that went into the flap.

There are other dimensions for flaps.

So now we're ready to scale up.

I get to the limit of the minimum amount of paper needed.

There's other ways of making flaps.

Come in here.

The wing has no steering controls, no flaps, no rudder.

If I put the flap on the edge, it uses a half circle of paper.

And from that stick figure, I somehow have to get to a folded shape that has a part for every bit of the subject, a flap for every leg.

At length, on some louder noise or my nearer approach, he would grow uneasy and sluggishly turn about on his perch, as if impatient at having his dreams disturbed and when he launched himself off and flapped through the pines, spreading his wings to unexpected breadth, I could not hear the slightest sound from them.