Even the Wright brothers used paper models in the wind tunnel. Jack Northrop and German warplane designers have all used paper to validate their designs, too. Modern paper planes work better than ...

That was the basis for the design of their first two gliders in 1900 and 1901. But in experimenting with those gliders the Wright brothers discovered that those machines were producing roughly 20 ...

At first, since the Wright Brothers had been toiling in relative obscurity, French aviators heralded Santos Dumont’s flight as the world’s first. Now, much to Brazil’s distress, the French and most of ...