When an airplane flies, the wings are designed to provide enough lift to overcome the airplane’s weight, so the plane doesn’t ...

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 ...

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 ...

That is quite a paper airplane. It spins as it flies. It gets its directional stability from how quickly that it's spinning. But more importantly, that's how it derives its lift, from how fast it's ...

Testing a small-scale prototype of the space paper airplane in the University of Tokyo's hypersonic wind tunnel. Shinji Suzuki Earlier this year, when astronauts attached the first section of Japan’s ...

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 ...

John Collins, also known as 'The Paper Airplane Guy,' teaches us how to fold and fly our very own "Phoenix" paper airplane. The Phoenix is a broader wing glider than the classic 'dart' and not too ...