Discover the magic of aviation through handcrafted paper models. With minimal materials, an IT professional brings airplanes to life, showcasing creativity and precision in every detail. Trump to ...

Computer-Aided Design And More Sophisticated Models Have Overtaken The Need For Paper Airplanes In the modern era, the need for paper airplanes as a research tool has diminished.

They then tested these models in a rudimentary, refrigerator-size wind tunnel—only the second to be built in the U.S. Paper planes are still illuminating the hidden wonders of flight.

People even used paper darts the same way kids use paper airplanes today: to be annoying. An 1881 description of the New York Stock Exchange noted an unusual punishment: “to throw a paper dart ...

You don’t need to speak German to appreciate Papierkrieg (Paper War) by Makaio Tisu—you just need a sibling and/or one long-repressed paper airplane obsession. Two children face off, creating ...

An amusing "scientist playing with paper planes" anecdote comes from physicist Theodore von Kármán. In his 1967 memoir The Wind and Beyond, he recalled a formal 1924 banquet in Delft, The ...

Although paper airplanes can be as simple as a ring or as complex as a bi-wing Camel, Blackburn said there's nothing wrong with the simple, pointy planes most kids start out on.

A new Kickstarter project called PowerUp 3.0 turns paper airplanes into smartphone-controlled flying machines. PowerUp 3.0 is a small electronic module that works by attaching onto a paper ...

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 ...