National Paper Airplane Day is celebrated every year on May 26.
This short family film by Brian Crain beautifully sums up the essence behind the low-tech National Paper Airplane Day.
Staff Sergeant Amanda Menlove prepares to show an Afghan boy how to throw a paper airplane at a
school at Kandahar Airfield, Afghanistan.
(U.S. Air Force photo by Tech. Sgt. Emily F. Alley)
All you need is a single sheet of paper, and -- mostly importantly -- the desire to have some fun! Got a crowd of eager, fellow paper pilots? Average office-supply packs of paper have enough material to make a fleet of 500 planes or more!
The Nye Family in Las Vegas, NV prepares to engages in "an epic Sunday air battle" -- the best kind of battle where everyone wins!
(photo by Jessica Nye)
Junior kinesiology major Byron Robinson launches a paper plane at Mississippi State University. MSU Professor Jack Blendinger (not pictured) encourages future graduates to embrace non-traditional, hands-on teaching methods. (Photo by Russ Houston)
An enthusiastic group of mostly adult geocachers in Ventura, CA gathers for a Paper Airplane Race
flash mob event cache.
(photo by Elin Carlson, aka "EMC of Northridge, CA")
Warm sun and a beautiful sky. A paper airplane can help you more greatly appreciate both.
(photo by Ekin Buyuksahin from Turkey, aka
quelquechose)
Students and faculty in Michigan State University's Master’s Degree in Educational Technology overseas Summer program in Rouen, France, get a hands-on lesson in iterative design. (Photo by Leigh Graves Wolf, Program Director at MSU, aka 46137)
A New Years' Eve party in Sydney, Australia.
(Photo by Tim Lucas, aka
toolmantim)
What better way to get your kids to run around than chasing after their airplane once it finally flies?
The Times Observer
Folding paper airplanes is a way to relax; a way to let the day's tension melt away.
Origami Resource Center
Making paper airplanes together creates family unity and loyalty, and builds self-esteem.
University of Nebraska
(College of Human Sciences)
A simple idea that has been culturally embraced for thousands of years, flying paper planes is an inexpensive, healthy, and stimulating form of entertainment.
Our mission is to encourage everyone young and old to put down their smartphones and iPads, get off the Internet, put down their Portal guns, and get outside for some primitive fun, tossing paper airplanes around with family and friends -- even if for only a few hours one day of the year!
Actually, we don't take donations. This isn't that kind of cause! I mean it's not like we're trying
to cure cancer or anything. However, we would certainly appreciate you purchasing books about
making paper airplanes from our sponsor,
Amazon.
Got a great photo of you and your family/friends/colleagues flying paper airplanes that is worthy of our front page? As long as it's at least 1000×500 in size, we'll consider it. (Don't worry; we can resize the photo for you!)
Just email a JPG or its URL to our super-secret email address:
webmaster [that "swirly A symbol" thingy] NationalPaperAirplaneDay.org.