Their dart-shaped plane traveled 289 feet and 9 inches, beating the previous record by almost 40 feet. Henry Hung Leif Ristroph, a fluid dynamicist at N.Y.U., tosses a sheet of paper across the room.

and the paper will be thinner by one fifth. Again, let the pace of the wire plane be unaltered, and the chest discharge ten instead of five gallons per minute, and the sheet will be just double ...

They set a new world record for farthest flight by a paper aircraft, sending a sheet of paper 88.318 meters, or almost 290 feet. Ruble and Jensen accomplished the feat with the help of Nathaniel ...