The University of Tokyo aerospace engineer hopes to watch real paper airplanes “launch” from the space station next year. The idea started with Takuo Toda, president of the Origami Paper ...

There are no limits to the complexities of paper airplane design. For the most ambitious models, a background in origami helps. Media Whalestock/Getty Images “When I was in elementary school ...

Nobody knows who invented the first paper airplane, but China began making paper on a large scale around 500 BCE, with the emergence of origami and paper-folding as a popular art form between 460 ...

Paper airplane aside, Ruble added that this tedious ... Both were also fans of origami as kids. The record-breaking team hopes their accomplishment will inspire other young and aspiring aerospace ...

Toda, the chairman of the Japan Origami Airplane Association, was there to launch a large paper plane from a tower he had built on the mountaintop for just that purpose. Toda persuaded the local ...

Learn how to make paper airplanes with these easy-to-follow directions. Origami is the Japanese art of folding paper. Finished designs can be 2-dimensional or intricate 3-dimensional creations.