TOKYO (AP) In the world of competitive paper airplane throwing, a 20-second flight is exceptional, 25 or better is world class. Thirty is the stuff dreams are made of. Only one man Japanese paper ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. At some point in everyone’s life—usually during a particularly dull moment in third grade—a plain white piece of paper inspires a ...

Takuo Toda, head of the Japan Origami Airplane Association (classy!) set a new world record with his 27.9 second flight. His greatest ambition, however, is to launch a paper plane…from space. Toda’s ...

John Collins, also known as 'The Paper Airplane Guy,' teaches us how to fold and fly our very own version of his "world record" paper airplane. John attempts to make the greatest paper airplane on the ...

Japanese origami plane virtuoso Takuo Toda has set a world record for a hand-launched plane made with only paper, but fell just short of the 30-second mark. Toda, flying a 10-centimeter-long craft of ...

KASHIWA, Japan – 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 ...

You might think paper airplanes are fun, quick-to-make toys for kids, but there is a world of paper plane–makers who are dead serious about the creation of record-setting planes. John Collins, The ...

Testing a small-scale prototype of the space paper airplane in the University of Tokyo's hypersonic wind tunnel. Shinji Suzuki Earlier this year, when astronauts attached the first section of Japan’s ...

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 month ...