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 white ...

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 total ...

Aerospace engineering major Dillon Ruble is graduating and on his way to work for Boeing, but not before he tries to be the best in the world at designing, folding and throwing a paper airplane. ROLLA ...

Illinois Ph.D. student Yu Chieh Chiu qualified for the Red Bull Paper Wings paper airplane competition in Salzburg, Austria, where he will compete in the distance competition. University of Illinois ...

Two Boeing engineers now hold the Guinness World Record for flying a handmade paper airplane after it flew 290 feet. [Credit: Shutterstock] Many aerospace engineers can trace their interest in ...

Looking for a little Friday fun? The College of Engineering and Applied Science is celebrating the annual Engineering Days – free and open to enthusiasts—with some creative and educational activities.

Jay’Liana Bailey put on the virtual reality headset and held a set of controls in each hand as she began flying a virtual ...

A little over two years ago we posted an amazing contraption that holds a stack of paper sheets, folds them into paper planes, and launches them. There’s now a newer version — the PFM A5 v2.0. It is ...