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 ...

We knew that the Japanese wouldn't bother with boring old sensible experiments on the International Space Station. But commissioning a paper plane and launching it from space? Damn! The 3.1 inch plane ...

You might think paper airplanes are fun, quick-to-make toys for kids, but there is a world of paper plane–makers who are dead serious about the creation of record-setting planes. John Collins, The ...