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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.

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:

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