Backpack slope soaring wings deliver a lightweight and portable gliding experience, and in this video we test how an ...

Joshua Jung, 23, began building airplane models out of cardstock ten years ago. Today, he is gifting pieces of his collection ...

Join me on an exciting journey as I delve into the art of crafting the simplest paper airplanes that actually fly! In this video, I will guide you step by step through the process of making paper ...

Paper planes aren't just for passing secret notes across the classroom anymore. Now, they can even save lives. Otherlab, an engineering research and development lab based in San Francisco, has created ...

At the bottom of a swimming pool on MIT’s campus, researchers keep testing a strange glider. The glider doesn’t have a propeller, nor does it resemble any known fish. It’s like a mix between a paper ...

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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.

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 white ...

Kids launched their paper airplanes with slingshots and sent them flying across the room. Disrespectful? Perhaps not. An adult was there to help them do it. Massanutten Regional Library staff spent ...