Check out a new book of paper airplanes inspired by the Smithsonian’s collections Michael D. Hulslander A paper airplane and its inspiration, the Mitchell U-2 Superwing. Plane image - Gift of Frank X.

Aeronautical engineer Ken Blackburn has a difficult goal — building kids’ enthusiasm for paper planes in an age when children can fly virtual fighter jets and spacecraft from their living room sofas ...

FUKUYAMA, Hiroshima Prefecture--Have sheet of paper, will fly. That simple philosophy reflects Takuo Toda’s obsession with making paper planes and seeing how long they stay up in the air. His ...

Richard DeFreece recalls making a beeline to the Guinness World Record books at Scholastic Book Fairs as a child. Years later, the 45-year-old has earned a place in those pages himself, having folded ...

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There are many, many ways of folding a paper airplane, and from sometime in the 1960s to an undetermined year in the 1980s, Harry Everett Smith probably found one of each make on the streets of ...