History is full of engineers making (or attempting to make) things out of the wrong stuff, from massive wooden aircraft to boats made of ice and sawdust. [PeterSripol] is attempting to make an ...

Ideally, an aircraft would be made of something reasonably strong, light, and weather resistant. Cardboard, is none of those things. But that did not stop [PeterSripol] from building an ultralight ...

At first glance, a flyable airplane made of cardboard sounds almost like a joke – the sort of thing that collapses long before it ever leaves the ground. But YouTuber and serial tinkerer Peter Sripol ...

Huge radio-controlled cardboard airplane made at home with cereal boxes, this time the only thing not made with cardboard is the fuselage, since this kind of cardboard is not strong enough to stand ...

It's a bird... It's a plane... It's a paper airplane! The world record for the farthest flight by paper airplane has been broken by three aerospace engineers with a paper aircraft that flew a grand ...

Which model airplane kit is best? Model airplane kits come in a vast variety of styles and detailed constructions. They aren’t just a few wooden planks that click together and barely float anymore.

Learn how to make a DIY paper airplane launcher using simple materials like cardboard, CDs, and small electric motors in this step-by-step craft tutorial. The video covers folding paper planes, ...

As a result, PowerUp 4.0 can apparently not only be used on sloppily-folded paper airplanes, but also on 20-grams-or-less model aircraft made of lightweight materials such as foam board or balsa wood.

Introduction Here's a challenge: Try throwing a paper airplane by moving just your wrist (don't move your elbow or shoulder). It's hard, isn't it? How could you get a paper airplane to fly far if you ...

“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 ...