2. Gather up the rest of the supplies including: cardboard or poster board to use as a backing, X-acto knife or scissors, a straight edge and a glue stick (I use restickable type for this project). Once the sheets are printed decide if you need to add any special marks that are not currently on the sheet (such as a certain paper airplane folding angle). You can optionally add a couple of very light coats of hairspray to give some protection against smearing the lines. If you are going to coat it with hairspray do it now before gluing and make sure it is very light coats since hairspray will dissolve many brands of glue and types of ink (good to know if an ink pen leaks in your pocket).
3. Trim the sheets along the black lines that are marked by the small arrows. Make sure that if you use a knife and straight edge, that you place the straight edge so that the line just disappears underneath.
5. Apply glue and attach each half of the printout to the poster board aligning the trimmed edges to the center mark on the poster board.
6. Use your fingers and a ruler to gently straighten and flatten each sheet on the poster board.
8. Trim the finished sheet to just a little larger than the grid marks.
9. Finished project. You can now use the paper airplane folding aid to quickly fold your a paper airplane without having to measure and mark each plane. This works great if you are making small adjustments to a certain folding dimension to test how each paper airplane design version flies.
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