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History of Paper Airplanes


History of Paper Airplanes

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It was during WWII that materials were in short for toys. The materials that were available had restricted use. These restrictions ruled out metal toys, thus all that was available was paper and wood. This led to airplanes as well as other toys that were normally made from metals to be prepared with paper or wood. There was also a shortage of ink that lead to bizarre-colored paper models.

Willis Rigby developed one of the most popular styles of constructions used for airplanes. Rigby was an Englishmen who had just moved his company to the U.S. in the late 1930s. His models were published as individual books and boxed sets. Some models such as the Douglas Dauntless was even published in newspapers as part of the colored Sunday Comic Section. Rigby’s products got so popular that it even led to newsreel coverage showing the steps used to design, build, and fly one of these paper model airplanes. They range from simple folded-paper darts to complex 3-demensional models. These airplanes gave thousands of kids and adults their first try at model buildings. After WWII however things returned to normal, and paper models rapidly disappeared. Only a few publishers continued to print paper models afterwards.



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