Best Beginner Paper Airplane Design: Arrowhead For a simple but surprisingly solid paper airplane, start with a standard 8.5-by-11-inch sheet of paper and follow the instructions below.

This is your standard paper jet. This type of paper airplane will fly fast and far. Learn more about this design on the Glenn Research Center website.

To see how he does it, check out the video below from WIRED. “The Paper Airplane Guy,” as he’s best known, treats paper airplanes like complex aircraft—and in his hands, they are.

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