Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. At some point in everyone's life—usually during a particularly dull moment in third grade—a plain white piece of paper inspires a ...

The first real airplane was designed, built and flown in 1903 by the Wright brothers. Today, over 100 years later, there’s still something enchanting about watching your own paper version sail through ...

DO YOUR paper aeroplanes dive limply to the floor the moment they’re launched? If so, software that ensures even the craziest designs can fly could rescue them. Nobuyuki Umetani at the University of ...

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 ...

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 ...

High above a massive stadium, the team tests whether a world record paper airplane design can actually glide across the entire field. From the top level, the plane is launched into swirling stadium ...