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History Of Paper Airplanes
Let's review together the history of paper airplanes with a bunch of text and pictures:
The history of paper models starts in China about two thousand years ago. The first models have been made of papyrus paper. Such models have not remain intact till the present time however so we can only guess how exactly they looked like.
Later these first models evolved to the origami craft. We know very well how the shapes of origami have looked as we keep doing them nowadays.
Aero Magazines, the beginning of XX century The first evidence that paper airplane history has started rolling its wheel can be found in the aviation magazines from 1908 - 1909. They have contained articles explaining the use of paper airplanes for understanding and exploring the aerodynamics and aircraft design. As the creator of die-cut paper airplanes is considered Wallis Rigby whose company were developing paper aircraft, cars and boats. |  Photo by Todd Ehlers at flickr |
During the Second World War the paper airplanes production increased because there was no development of plastic model airplanes and balsa wood models. Paper is cheap, you know.
| Present time Paper airplanes are not history - they are still here, pretty much alive and kicking. People keep looking for good paper airplane designs and build paper airplanes themselves. There are plenty of paper aircraft books, containing instructions or lined models that you can cut or build. There are websites and tutorials on making paper airplanes like the ones on this site. |  Photo by tomhe at flickr |
- Wikipedia
- http://www.paperplane.org/history.html
- http://library.thinkquest.org/trio/TR0110764/paper.html
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David at Sep, 28 '09 21:08
You need more information but it was good.
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Jack at Nov, 12 '10 17:46
you need more info on the topic but it was good enough to spark an idea
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Jay Inamdar at Apr, 19 '11 00:17
this is good, but you should put the name of the author on this so we can use this in our citations. im doing an essay on paper airplanes and i need the authors name on the title....otherwise this was good information
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Bob at Apr, 27 '11 17:42
Hi Jay, you can simply list modelsaviation.com as author. We have collected information from various sources.
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John at May, 03 '11 01:07
Yeah i need it for a citation also!
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astrid at Sep, 12 '11 05:48
I want to have a roster of the names and originating countries of world champions in rubber band powered model airplanes from 1939 and up to 1945. would anyone be able to suggest how I go about it?
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brian at Oct, 21 '11 06:09
if there is no authors name then you will have to cite: (unknown #)
#= page number
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