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.

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 ...

In what must be the greatest scientific paper of all time, Maximilien Berthet and Kojiro Suzuki attacked the problem with the ...

On Friday morning, an attempt to make history took flight: John Collins, otherwise known as The Paper Airplane Guy, tried to fly a paper airplane further than any paper airplane has flown before. John ...

Paper planes aren't just for passing secret notes across the classroom anymore. Now, they can even save lives. Otherlab, an engineering research and development lab based in San Francisco, has created ...

Two Boeing engineers now hold the Guinness World Record for flying a handmade paper airplane after it flew 290 feet. [Credit: Shutterstock] Boeing engineers Dillon Ruble and Garrett Jensen set a new ...

John Collins, also known as 'The Paper Airplane Guy,' teaches us how to fold and fly our very own "Phoenix" paper airplane. The Phoenix is a broader wing glider than the classic 'dart' and not too ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. At some point in everyone's life—usually during a particularly dull moment in third grade—a plain white piece of paper inspires a ...

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