Editing Paper plane (section)

==History==
Paper airplanes are known to have been made as far back as the mid 19th century, based on an American children's book describing their construction from 1864.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Edwards |first=Phil |date=2015-04-28 |title=Did people fly paper airplanes before real airplanes were invented? |url=https://www.vox.com/2015/4/28/8505377/paper-airplanes-history |access-date=2024-01-06 |website=Vox |language=en}}</ref>

The construction of a paper airplane, by [[Ludwig Prandtl]] at the 1924 banquet of the [[International Union of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics]], was dismissed as an artless exercise by [[Theodore von Kármán]]:<ref>[[Theodore von Kármán]] with Lee Edson (1967) ''The Wind and Beyond'', [[Little, Brown and Company]], p. 38.</ref>

<blockquote>Prandtl was also somewhat impulsive. I recall that on one occasion at a rather dignified dinner meeting following a conference in Delft, Holland, [[Josephine de Karman|my sister]], who sat next to him at the table, asked him a question on the mechanics of flight. He started to explain; in the course of it he picked up a paper [[menu]] and fashioned a small model airplane, without thinking where he was. It landed on the shirtfront of the French Minister of Education, much to the embarrassment of my sister and others at the banquet.</blockquote>

In recent times, paper model aircraft have gained great sophistication, and very high flight performance far removed from their origami origins, yet even origami aircraft have gained many new designs over the years, and gained much in terms of flight performance.

There have been many design improvements, including [[velocity]], [[lift (force)|lift]], [[propulsion]],<ref>{{cite book |author=John M. Collins |year=2012 |title=Fantastic flight |publisher=10 Speed Press |isbn=978-1580085779|pages=122–126}}</ref> style, and fashion over subsequent years.