Thunderbolt: a Popular Paper Jet No How-to

You’ve waited long enough for this plane, now you’ve got it! Meet Thunderbolt, a plane made by Advanced Origami on YouTube, it has 16 million views… Why you may ask? BECAUSE IT HAS NO TUTORIAL!! Though here we are.😎

Square paper

bone folder (not needed but highly recommended)

pen or pencil (for rolling the air intakes and afterburners)

Just fold in half from corner to corner for the first step.

Fold the top side down to the bottom edge on both sides.

Unfold the first crease of the plane, fold down from the top, flip over, unfold the two sides and fold the top corners in on both sides.

Unfold one of the sides, pinch and drag that crease to the center and repeat on the opposite side.

Fold both the side into the center again (no dragging, no pinching, no nothing).

All that trapped paper underneath is gonna be let out and then you’ll fold you're up in half from side to side.

Fold to the blue edge, make a new crease from the edge on that squash and swivel the wing.

unfold until you have this, pinch the more flat crease, and push up along the diagonal creases, lie it flat and repeat the other wing.

Fold up until it meets two corners, unfold and flip over, fold all the way up, and fold down until the earlier crease meets the edge behind it.

Fold that top squash in half again, and fold up whats gonna be the air intakes.

The paper underneath the air intake layers is gonna move to the other side on opposite sides.

Unfold that top half and inside reverse the two sides in.

flip over and push the intakes in.

Fold up, fold down to that crease and roll it all back in and repeat.

(You should really know how to do this)

Fold the side out, fold back in to that crease and until it hits a point that separates the layers and roll it all back in and repeat.

(Imma be surprised if you don’t know how to do this)

Fold out from the pedal fold then to the bottom and push the two sides in till they meet.

You can make the tail as big or small as you want.

Pop out the pedal fold and push it back in and make sure that it lines up with the bottom of the jet fold line.

Unfold one of the sides of the gun and fold to the center of it.

Fold the back layers up to the inside, unfold and fold to that crease and push it up to the inside again.

You can use your pencil for this part.

Better safe than sorry…🤷

Are you glad you finally have a tutorial for this plane now?? (This tutorial was made originally by irrelevant paper planes but designed by Advanced Origami)