Smithsonian Magazine

Beat the Winter Blues by Learning How to Fly Smithsonian Paper Airplanes With Your Kids

When an airplane flies, the wings are designed to provide enough lift to overcome the airplane’s weight, so the plane doesn’t ...
The Spokesman-Review

Paper airplanes could help with design of drones or flying robots

“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 ...
Forbes

How To Fly A Paper Aeroplane With Your Smartphone

Let’s face it, there are some products that are really easy to explain, and PowerUp’s titular PowerUp 4.0 is one of them. Using your smartphone to control a drone is not a new idea, but taking it away ...
Smithsonian Magazine

Now You Can Fold Planes From the National Air and Space Museum and Watch Them Fly

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.
wnep

National Paper Airplane Day: Celebrate by making these simply awesome paper airplane designs

We've all made paper airplanes at some point in our lives. Some flew great, others... not so much. In honor of National Paper Airplane Day, we found some great paper airplane and glider templates ...