Paper airplanes are something that kids all over the world are familiar with. After all, they are a toy that can be made almost anywhere as all you need is a piece of paper and the ability to fold it ...

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 ...

John Collins knows how to make a piece of paper go the distance. In 2012, he set the world record for the farthest flight for a paper aircraft. Collins, who's known as "The Paper Airplane Guy," has ...

The history of the first paper airplane is largely debated. According to the Strong National Museum of Play in Rochester, N.Y., some believe the earliest paper airplanes came from China with the use ...

This illustration features three of the paper airplanes based on planes in the Smithsonian’s National Air and Space Museum's collections. Smithsonian Books Looking for ways to keep the family ...

We’ve always had a fascination with things that fly. Sure, drones are the latest incarnation of that, but there have been RC planes, kites, and all sorts of flying toys and gizmos even before manned ...

Stripped to its essentials, a paper airplane requires two things: a medium-weight piece of paper and a lot of fine-tuning. But for Ken Blackburn, four-time world champ, launching a winning craft ...

There's rarely time to write about every cool science-y story that comes our way. So this year, we're once again running a special Twelve Days of Christmas series of posts, highlighting one science ...

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 ...

Break out your prefered stack of freshly bonded 8 1/2 x 11, because today is National Paper Airplane Day! Just because the coronavirus outbreak has put group paper plane contests on hold, that doesn't ...