What makes Pteromys exciting for paper airplane fans is the idea it can turn almost any design into something that will fly by tweaking details like wing location and shape, or the length of fuselage.

Unless it has a fancy, tailed design, “a paper airplane does this all in one,” he says. “I doubt our discoveries will change the way passenger airplanes are designed,” Ristroph says.

Notably, despite the fact that paper airplanes have been around for a very long time, they didn't always go by that name. Before the airplane was invented the term simply wasn't in use, so the ...

Taking a cue from birds and insects, researchers have come up with a new wing design for small drones that helps them fly more efficiently and makes them more robust to atmospheric turbulence.

By Taylor Nicioli, CNN 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 ...

But it’s not just the way the new wing functions that sets it apart, according to researchers who co-authored a paper published this week in the journal “Smart Materials and Structures.” ...

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 possib… ...

You will also need to make sure the paper airplane does not get caught or snagged on the device when you launch it. Draw a few sketches of your design ideas, and pick one to build. Build a ...