History is full of engineers making (or attempting to make) things out of the wrong stuff, from massive wooden aircraft to boats made of ice and sawdust. [PeterSripol] is attempting to make an ...

At first glance, a flyable airplane made of cardboard sounds almost like a joke – the sort of thing that collapses long before it ever leaves the ground. But YouTuber and serial tinkerer Peter Sripol ...

Ideally, an aircraft would be made of something reasonably strong, light, and weather resistant. Cardboard, is none of those things. But that did not stop [PeterSripol] from building an ultralight ...

In this video, we are going to make a cardboard airplane (glider) properly, we are going to use techniques used in rc airplanes builds but using cardboard. It is possible to make an rc airplane with ...

“If you take a regular piece of paper and try to make it fly, it will flutter, tumble, flip around in the air and do all sorts of crazy motions,” said Leif Ristroph, an associate professor of ...

As a result, PowerUp 4.0 can apparently not only be used on sloppily-folded paper airplanes, but also on 20-grams-or-less model aircraft made of lightweight materials such as foam board or balsa wood.