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.

“Depending on what you want to achieve, it can change the overall design process,” he says ... Here's how to make good paper airplanes that will go the desired distance.

These designs are almost exactly the same as the most common and popular methods used today, demonstrating that paper airplanes are not a modern concept and the only difference between these early ...

“Full-scale and paper airplanes have vast differences in their complexity, but both operate on the same fundamental principles,” said Ruble, via email. “Some of the same design methodologies ...

They just called it by a different name. And its original design looked strikingly similar to the airplanes we make today. People even used paper darts the same way kids use paper airplanes today ...

Shinji Suzuki met Takuo Toda in 1999, atop Mt. Yonami in the southern city of Jinseki-Kogen, Japan. Toda, the chairman of the Japan Origami Airplane Association, was there to launch a large paper ...

In the 19th century, British engineer and inventor Sir George Cayley—sometimes called the "father of aviation"—studied the gliding performance of paper airplanes to design a glider capable of ...

This group of #TeamBoeing engineers from St. Louis officially broke the Guinness World Record for the farthest flight by a paper aircraft ... prototypes to try to design a plane that could ...