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John Collins knows how to make a piece of paper go the distance. In 2012, he set the world record for the farthest flight for a paper aircraft. Collins, who's known as "The Paper Airplane Guy," has ...

John Collins, the Paper Airplane Guy, shows how to fold five amazing paper planes: the Boomerang, the Boomerang 2, the Bat Plane, the Tumbling Wing, and the World Record Plane (a.k.a. "Suzanne"). Read ...

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You might think paper airplanes are fun, quick-to-make toys for kids, but there is a world of paper plane–makers who are dead serious about the creation of record-setting planes. John Collins, The ...

Xu Shuquan, a 70-year old retired primary school teacher from Chengdu, Southwest China, has recently unveiled the more than 10,000 paper planes, he built in the last 60 years. The man says his ...

If there’s one paper craft that every person has likely attempted at least once, it’s the craft of folding a paper plane. From gliders to darts, these lightweight soarers have been around for ...

A unique application that makes paper airplanes made with letters that stamped their current location a fly to someone in the world by shaking smartphones "Paper Planes"is. By stamping someone on my ...

The history of the first paper airplane is largely debated. According to the Strong National Museum of Play in Rochester, N.Y., some believe the earliest paper airplanes came from China with the use ...

An East Texas man has officially earned a place in the Guinness World Records by folding more paper airplanes in one hour than anyone before him, turning a lifelong habit into a verified achievement.