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 ...

“If you take a regular piece of paper and try to make it fly, it will flutter, tumble, flip around in the air and do all sorts of crazy motions,” says Leif Ristroph, an associate professor of ...

Making pontoons is not that complicated when following simple rules for the design. We are using the same airplane made in a previous video, the Joytrainer, (based on the design Simple Storch from ...

When you glance out your airplane window at 30,000 feet, that curved little portal seems like a simple design choice. But the ...