About the Book
Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 54. Chapters: Origami, Flexagon, Paper plane, Miguel de Unamuno, Origami techniques, Hotel toilet paper folding, Paper football, Huzita-Hatori axioms, Mathematics of paper folding, Dragon curve, History of origami, Modular origami, Napkin folding problem, Origamic architecture, OrigamiUSA, Washi, Thousand origami cranes, Tamatebako, Matthew T. Mason, Paper plane launched from space, Chinese paper folding, Paper craft, Sonobe, Britney Gallivan, Regular paperfolding sequence, Rigid origami, Kusudama, Origami paper, Paper fortune teller, Action origami, Masu, List of origamists, Wet-folding, Miura fold, Iris folding, Fold-and-cut theorem, Teabag folding, Troublewit, Shide, Polytetrahedron, Map folding, FPG-9, Paper popper, Humiaki Huzita, Crease pattern, Pureland origami, British Origami Society, Kawasaki's theorem, Origami-bonsai, Bug Wars, Backcoating, Noshi. Excerpt: A paper plane, paper aeroplane (UK), paper airplane (US), paper glider, paper dart or dart is a toy aircraft, usually a glider made out of paper or paperboard; the practice of constructing paper planes is sometimes referred to as aerogami (Japanese: kamihik ki), after origami, the Japanese art of paper folding. The origin of folded paper gliders is generally considered to be of Ancient China, though there is equal evidence that the refinement and development of folded gliders took place in equal measure in Japan. Certainly, manufacture of paper on a widespread scale took place in China 500 BCE, and origami and paper folding became popular within a century of this period, approximately 460-390 BCE. It is impossible to ascertain where and in what form the first paper aircraft were constructed, or even the first paper plane's form. For over a thousand years after this, paper aircraft were the dominant man-made heavier-than-air craft whose principles could be readily app...
