Out of all paper planes I tried, it has the best flying capabilities by far.
Form and function really come together in this one. It looks beautifully simple and elegant. And that's also how it flies. When you throw it from a rooftop, you are in for quite a show. It often flies loooong smooth circles. If you are lucky with the wind, it can stay in the air quite a while.
I do not use A4 paper though. I prefer A5, which is half the size of A4. I usually tear an A4 into two equal halves and use one of them.
I also do not do the crease at 04:18. Without it, the paper plane is even more beautiful, because you can put it on a flat surface and it stands on its own.
Wow, after the first two folds, this plane really folds itself.
The first fold is at 22.5 degrees, which makes all further folds have alignment with the base of the plane.
My entire life i was folding a plane that starts with two classic 45 degrees, then a 90 degree fold of the top 2/5th of the paper, again 45 degrees tip, hook in the little triangle. Fold over symmetry line and add wings however you want them. It's quite similar with hooking in the tip (the 04:18 crease), but not nearly as elegant to fold. It is capable of doing a looping, and is otherwise a decent flyer.
Curious about yours though, can't try it out here as I'm in the office.
The Nakamura Lock, a schoolyard classic worldwide. It has a name, but no apparent origin; an Eiji Nakamura did publish a book Flying Origami in 1972, but no such plane can be found within.
The only source I can find is a Reddit comment stating that the design is named after Nakamura for having invented the type of fold that holds the plane together (https://redd.it/j2yjsd)
He is not folding the Nakamura lock, as far as my googling goes. The nakamura lock starts with a perfect 90 degrees tip (two 45 degree folds), whereas OP starts with two 22.5 degree folds that don't form a a tip).
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3BNg4fDJC8A
Out of all paper planes I tried, it has the best flying capabilities by far.
Form and function really come together in this one. It looks beautifully simple and elegant. And that's also how it flies. When you throw it from a rooftop, you are in for quite a show. It often flies loooong smooth circles. If you are lucky with the wind, it can stay in the air quite a while.
I do not use A4 paper though. I prefer A5, which is half the size of A4. I usually tear an A4 into two equal halves and use one of them.
I also do not do the crease at 04:18. Without it, the paper plane is even more beautiful, because you can put it on a flat surface and it stands on its own.