“There are lots of way to learn first-hand the principles of flight, but most of them require years of studying or a pilot’s license. There is, however, an exception: folding paper airplanes. Da Vinci did it, as did the Wright Brothers and Jack Northrop, and if it’s good enough for them, it’s good enough for us. So we enlisted two master paper-plane folders, Takuo Toda and Ken Blackburn, to show us their best cracks at making a long-flying plane out of a sheet of super-light magazine paper. When we asked Blackburn to design a custom paper plane, we couldn’t have imagined he’d come back with what he did. As a lifelong student of aeronautical engineering, Blackburn knew something we didn’t: a paper plane doesn’t necessarily have to look like a real plane — with a nose, two wings, and a tail — in order to stay aloft for a long time… Learn how to fold the longest-flying paper airplanes.” w/ photos + video
