SAFETY
"You'll have someone's eye out with that!"
My mum would often tell me this when I was dangerously weilding a paper
bag or something, but Paper Airplanes can be dangerous, so it's always
best to take care and remember a few common sense rules, to make life safer
for everybody:-
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Never throw planes at or towards people
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Never throw planes over people, they may take a dive at the wrong moment
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Always warn people around you that you are about to throw a plane, so they
can keep a look out for it coming at them
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Remember planes don't always fly as planned, a plane may take a 90 degree
turn in the middle of its flight, and hit someone you thought was well
out of the way.
If you are going to be throwing them in a crowd, or to each other, or if
you are making planes for kids, there are steps to be taken to make things
safer.
Most of the danger in a plane comes from the pointed nose, so by cutting
this off, and cutting so as to leave a curved edge, you have made it that
bit safer.
Without cutting, you can fold back the nose. Using the Classic
Dart as an example, do the following between stages IV and V :-
Simply fold down the nose before continuing.
edited by kuldip narayan