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 ...

We've all made paper airplanes at some point in our lives. Some flew great, others... not so much. In honor of National Paper Airplane Day, we found some great paper airplane and glider templates ...

DO YOUR paper aeroplanes dive limply to the floor the moment they’re launched? If so, software that ensures even the craziest designs can fly could rescue them. Nobuyuki Umetani at the University of ...

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 ...

“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 ...

Every now and again we stumble across something a bit unexpected, and today that’s the fact that there have been quite a few efforts at launching paper planes from as close to space as possible. The ...

We enlisted the help of Andy Currey to give the latest paper-plane apps, books and accessories a test flight at the cavernous O2 in east London. Currey, a one-time world record holder (20.9 seconds ...

Student aviation and paper plane enthusiasts descended on the Commonwealth Ballroom of Squires Student Center Wednesday to take part in the Red Bull Paper Planes competition. Student aviation and ...

It's a bird... It's a plane... It's a paper airplane! The world record for the farthest flight by paper airplane has been broken by three aerospace engineers with a paper aircraft that flew a grand ...

If you’re too lazy to launch your own paper airplanes, then you need one of these fun gadgets, the Electric Paper Plane Launcher. The Electric Paper Plane Launcher was designed at Middlesex University ...