At some point in everyone’s life—usually during a particularly dull moment in third grade—a plain white piece of paper inspires a certain degree of aerial imagination. Transforming this thin ...

Early Engineers Used Paper Airplanes To Experiment With Aerodynamics Paper airplanes have a number of key advantages that make them the perfect way to experiment with aerodynamics. Paper is cheap ...

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 ...

Maybe the first model flying machine you had was a paper airplane. There’s some debate, but it appears the Chinese and Japanese made paper airplanes 2,000 years ago. Now there’s a database of ...