Shinji Suzuki met Takuo Toda in 1999, atop Mt. Yonami in the southern city of Jinseki-Kogen, Japan. Toda, the chairman of the Japan Origami Airplane Association, was there to launch a large paper ...

Keeping the paper airplane's weight to a minimum will help fight against the pull of gravity," according to the article. Thrust: Thrust refers to the force used to throw the paper plane forward.

Paper airplanes have long been studied as a means of learning more about the aerodynamics of flight. ... If the weight was centered, or nearly so, at the center of the wing, ...