Getting Started: A paper plane, paper aeroplane, or paper airplane is a toy plane made out of paper. It is also sometimes called aerogami, after origami (the Japanese art of paper folding). In Japanese, it is called kami hikoki; kami=paper, hikoki=airplane.
It is popular due to its being one of the easiest typess of origami for a novice to master. The most basic paper plane would only take at most six steps to "correctly" complete. The term "paper plane" in recent times can also refer to those made from cardboard.
A little history: The use of paper to create toys is still a mystery, is believed to have originated 2,000 years ago in China, where kites were a popular form of entertainment. Paper was developed in China in the first century A.D., and Buddhist monks brought it to Japan by the sixth century A.D. Although these can be considered to be evidence for the modern paper plane, no one can be sure where exactly this invention originated; designs for velocity, lift and fashion have been improved by the years gone by. Leonardo da Vinci is often cited as the inventor of paper planes, although this is debatable. However, he did make reference to building a model plane out of parchment. Arguably the father of model gliders was George Cayley, who built hand-launched kite-like gliders from linen in the early 1800s.
The earliest known date of the creation of paper planes was said to have been in 1909. However, the most accepted version of the creation was two decades later in 1930 by Jack Northrop (Co-founder of Lockheed Corporation). Northrop has used paper planes as tests so that he could discover ideas for flying real-life aircraft.
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