The most amazing thing about a paper airplane is that all you need to make one is a sheet of paper—nothing more. You don't need scissors, glue, tape, or paper clips. A few folds, a couple of adjustments, and you have a superb paper flyer. The properties of paper give the airplane all the attributes it needs.
How to Fold a Paper Airplane
If you've ever made a paper airplane, you've probably just folded the paper into a simple dart—as people have done for at least a hundred years. But in the last two decades, paper airplane designers have imported techniques from origami. Perhaps the best innovation was the addition of one fold to the classic dart design to create a plane called the "Nakamura lock" after the origami artist who designed it.
