It’s easy to craft a paper airplane capable of soaring across a classroom, but one that can travel 200 feet is a bit harder.

Almost everyone has folded a sheet of paper into an airplane, thrown it across a classroom or playground, and watched it ...

A group of students from Italy's University of Pisa constructed a paper plane with a wingspan of 65.75 feet and flew it a ...

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.

Building a paper airplane can be as demanding as building the airframe of a real aircraft. And once a group of students in Pisa set out to make the world’s largest one, the classroom craft turned into ...

This illustration features three of the paper airplanes based on planes in the Smithsonian’s National Air and Space Museum's collections. Smithsonian Books Looking for ways to keep the family ...