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 ...

John Collins, The Paper Airplane Guy, has studied both origami and aerodynamics to design planes that set world records. In 2012, one of his designs, thrown by professional football player Joe ...

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 ...

After studying origami for 10 years, he applied what he knew about aerodynamics to the Japanese art of paper folding. His precise folding techniques combined with clever designs produce planes ...

Both were also fans of origami as kids. The record-breaking ... For those looking to create their own record-breaking paper plane design, the feat is not impossible, but may take some time ...

Japanese scientists and origami masters hope to launch a paper airplane from space and learn from its trip back to Earth. It's no joke. A prototype passed a durability test in a wind tunnel this ...

A paper plane might not seem ideally suited to space travel, but a Japanese engineering professor is collaborating with origami masters to design a small paper spacecraft that could be launched ...

whose talent for origami as a child evolved into a passion for what he calls “action-based” origami—specifically, mastering the best paper airplane designs.