Making a good paper airplane is tough. Drop a simple sheet of paper and it will tumble and flip its way to the floor instead of gliding. The folds of Keep reading
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Lift on a Paper Plane
In this still image from a student experiment, smoke visualization shows the formation of a vortex over the wing of a paper airplane during a wind tunnel test. This wing Keep reading
Paper Plane Physics
[original media unavailable] It’s a little surprising that this would be so stable, but I don’t have any reason to believe it impossible. #