N.Y., some believe the earliest paper airplanes came from China with the use of papyrus paper to make kites. Others attribute some of the earliest designs to Leonardo da Vinci with his early ...

Paper airplanes are wonderful. Few things made a boring middle school math class go by like crafting the perfect paper bird and hurling it at the head of your best buddy across the room.

In February, he decided to test his creations. A three-inch-long origami airplane made of specially-coated paper and folded like a space shuttle was placed in a Mach 7 airflow inside the ...

“People can make very, very good paper airplanes now,” Wang says. “It’s a fine art. They build their intuition by making them.” Through trial and error, they discovered that placing ...