John Collins, origami enthusiast and paper airplane savant, walks us through all the science behind five spectacular paper airplanes. Most people know how to fold a simple plane, but paper airplanes ...

Check out a new book of paper airplanes inspired by the Smithsonian’s collections Michael D. Hulslander A paper airplane and its inspiration, the Mitchell U-2 Superwing. Plane image - Gift of Frank X.

Making paper airplanes isn’t just a great low-tech boredom killer—it’s highly educational, too. Yep, all that time you spent folding spiral notebook paper into cool gliders in 11th grade economics, ...

"Flip-through animation shows the basic origami folds, with clear step-by-step assembly for each plane. Folding is all you need to create these high performance ...

Break out your prefered stack of freshly bonded 8 1/2 x 11, because today is National Paper Airplane Day! Just because the coronavirus outbreak has put group paper plane contests on hold, that doesn't ...

“If you take a regular piece of paper and try to make it fly, it will flutter, tumble, flip around in the air and do all sorts of crazy motions,” said Leif Ristroph, an associate professor of ...

A 91-year-old aviation enthusiast, Huntly Briggs, is changing the game when it comes to paper airplanes. Most of us know paper airplanes as blank pieces of paper that we simply fold to create a glider ...

Wimee sings about flying all over the world! Wimee sings about flying all over the world; Moby wonders about how paper airplanes fly; Brody shows the tiny paper airplane he made for Wimito before ...

Ryan Naccarato is taking the family tradition of building model airplanes to new heights. A third-year student at UC Davis, he competed in the Red Bull Paper Wings competition in Austria in April and ...

Testing a small-scale prototype of the space paper airplane in the University of Tokyo's hypersonic wind tunnel. Shinji Suzuki Earlier this year, when astronauts attached the first section of Japan’s ...