It’s easy to craft a paper airplane capable of soaring across a classroom, but one that can travel 200 feet is a bit harder.

Almost everyone has folded a sheet of paper into an airplane, thrown it across a classroom or playground, and watched it ...

What would happen if you threw a paper airplane from the International Space Station? It’s just the sort of idea that might emerge from a curious child — or, as it turns out, a physicist with a flair ...

A group of students from Italy's University of Pisa constructed a paper plane with a wingspan of 65.75 feet and flew it a ...

History is full of engineers making (or attempting to make) things out of the wrong stuff, from massive wooden aircraft to boats made of ice and sawdust. [PeterSripol] is attempting to make an ...

In what must be the greatest scientific paper of all time, Maximilien Berthet and Kojiro Suzuki attacked the problem with the ...

They said they were students who believed that, with the right approach, even a piece of paper could become real engineering.

Ideally, an aircraft would be made of something reasonably strong, light, and weather resistant. Cardboard, is none of those things. But that did not stop [PeterSripol] from building an ultralight ...

March 4 (UPI) --A serial Guinness World Record breaker bested one of his own titles by folding and throwing a paper plane in just 5.12 seconds. David Rush, who holds the most concurrent Guinness World ...

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.

With the release of Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door for the Nintendo Switch, Nintendo and paper airplane master and former world record holder John Collins have collaborated to bring the magic, ...