Paper airplanes combine lots of kids' favorite things ... My almost-9-year-old has had some origami instruction and was able ...

There are no limits to the complexities of paper airplane design. For the most ambitious models, a background in origami helps. Media Whalestock/Getty Images “When I was in elementary school ...

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 ...

The University of Tokyo aerospace engineer hopes to watch real paper airplanes “launch” from the space station next year. The idea started with Takuo Toda, president of the Origami Paper ...

Paper airplane aside, Ruble added that this tedious ... Both were also fans of origami as kids. The record-breaking team hopes their accomplishment will inspire other young and aspiring aerospace ...

Toda, the chairman of the Japan Origami Airplane Association, was there to launch a large paper plane from a tower he had built on the mountaintop for just that purpose. Toda persuaded the local ...

Nobody knows who invented the first paper airplane, but China began making paper on a large scale around 500 BCE, with the emergence of origami and paper-folding as a popular art form between 460 ...