The Hangar
Paper Dart of the Day.
The Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum keeps a gallery of over 140,000 paper airplanes designed by visitors. Every day, one of them earns a spot in our hangar. We take this honor extremely seriously.
Today
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Planes and printable folding templates come from the Smithsonian's How Things Fly exhibit. Go make one. Add to the pile.
Why this page exists
Because a paper plane is the simplest thing that flies.
Somebody folded every single one of those 140,000 planes. Most nosedived into a wall on the first throw. The ones that flew got refolded from the ones that didn't, and that's the entire philosophy of this studio on one government-funded web page.
Fold. Throw. Refold. The long version is here.