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 white ...

If there’s one paper craft that every person has likely attempted at least once, it’s the craft of folding a paper plane. From gliders to darts, these lightweight soarers have been around for ...

“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 ...

John Collins, origami enthusiast and paper airplane savant, walks us through all the science behind five spectacular paper airplanes. Most people know how to fold a simple plane, but paper airplanes ...

Calling all pilots, we have some of the best paper planes for you to make and fly! Watch the tutorial videos and follow these super simple instructions to make your own paper planes. There are four ...

Making the perfect paper airplane is no easy task. Unless you’re a professional, you probably picked up a few tricks in elementary school—then promptly forgot them. Or, you’ve found one tried-and-true ...

As part of the Evening Standard's STEM Project, we're setting a series of challenges for young people. Using your science, technology, engineering and maths skills, how might you solve these problems?

We've all made the standard paper airplane, that elongated triangle made up of six simple folds. But what if you wanted to make a paper airplane that looks like an armadillo? Could you get that to fly ...

Commercial aviation technology is so advanced that airline passengers often post stories on their social channels about the heroic ways they overcame the tedium of sitting patiently in relative ...