At some point in everyone’s life—usually during a particularly dull moment in third grade—a plain white piece of paper ...

If you want to build paper airplane models of the space shuttle, F-16 Falcon, F/A-18 Hornet, and other aircraft, this page from the American Society of Mechanical Engineers offers plans and folding ...

“If you take a regular piece of paper and try to make it fly, it will flutter, tumble, flip around in the air and do all sorts of crazy motions,” said Leif Ristroph, an associate professor of ...

How does an airplane lift off the ground? Learn how planes use lift and thrust to fly, then make your own paper airplane catapult. Design Squad is available to stream on pbs.org and the free PBS App, ...

Most of us started building paper airplanes when were kids. In case you missed out, here’s some quick instructions. Or maybe you’d like to dedicate years of your life to constructing a 1/60th scale ...

We've all made the standard paper airplane, that elongated triangle made up of six simple folds. But what if you wanted to make a paper airplane that looks like an armadillo? Could you get that to fly ...

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 ...

Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent every weekday. Terms of Service and Privacy Policy. How you fold a paper airplane can determine how fast or how far it ...

Earlier this year, after a design competition, it was decided that Civic Center’s Grand Park would get a new shade structure designed to look like a collection of paper airplanes. Now, the new park ...

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 ...