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Home > Book Reviews > Paper Airplanes with Dollar Bills

Skill Level :	Intermediate
Clear diagrams?	Mostly clear
Tinted diagrams (to show 2 sides of paper)?	Yes
Photos of completed models?	Yes
Is there indication to the model size resulting from size of starting paper?	No
Are the models "Pure" origami (From square - no cuts)?	All models are from $ bills. Some use more than one bill

Overall Impression

I'm not usually a big fan of Duy Nguyen's origami books, as his work stretches the definition of origami in ways I'm not comfortable with. I do like this little book, however.  Using only one to three US $ bills, with no cutting, Nguyen creates very nice representations of real and fictional aircraft, including Star-Trek and Battlestar Galactica spaceships. The production quality of this book, as with most of the author's books, is high, and the spiral-binding is very convenient.  There are some money facts between the diagrams.

Diagram quality could use improvement. While mostly readable diagrams, a strange choice was made to use very few directional arrows in the steps. This could confuse newcomers to origami.

A fun book for those who enjoy folding their money instead of spending it on more origami books!

The Models

Model	Notes	Photo (click for a larger image)
F-14A Tomcat
B-2 Bomber
F-16 Falcon
Battlestar Galactica: Raider
Battlestar Galactica: Anubis Fighter
Concorde		Folded by Michele Rousseau
WWII Single-engine fighter	From 2 bills
B-52 Stratofortress	From 2 bills
F-15C Eagle	From 2 bills
Boeing 747	From 3 bills
A-10A Thunderbolt	From 3 bills
Grumman E-2C Hawkeye	From 3 bills
Star Trek	Resembles the USS Enterprise - From 3 bills