Paper Airplanes

The first flying paper items where probably kites which were flown in China over 2,000 years ago. The first reference to paper airplanes in the United States was when Jack Northrop used paper airplane gliders in the early 1930’s to assist him in designing wings for some of the early airplanes.  

Making paper airplanes with your kids is a lot of fun, and best of all it's inexpensive! You are never too old, or too young, to fold up some paper and marvel at the mystery of flight. Each of these books will show you how to make some truly unique planes, not just the standard detention-hall variety. Fantastic Flight book: These aren't your ordinary paper airplanes. These airplanes loop, circle back, flap their wings and spin, tumble, soar...  

Card File Address BookThere's something magical about having addresses handwritten. It takes us out of our every-day; computer inundated and typewritten world. This is a handmade card-file address book by Beth Bee from her original block print. Small 3-ring card file address book with alphabet sticker-tabbed cardstock dividers and 100 pgs of blank 24# paper. Dimensions are paper: 4.25" x 2.75" and hand printed davyboard covers are 4.5...  

Studio 360 waits for David Hockney. The artist returns to the English countryside where he grew up, to paint some of the most vivid landscapes of his career. In the documentary "Waiting for David Hockney" outsider artist Billy Pappas hopes his idol, Hockney, will come to see a single drawing Pappas has been working on for eight years. And we'll meet the struggling single moms of Troy, NY through the eyes of a poet and a photographer.  

I just did something banally amazing. Now I'm overcome with a profound sense of dread. Is this legitimate?We just had some down time at work and we were throwing paper airplanes. Now I should say, that we never have downtime at this job, but this was different because our computers were down. So the fact that people kind of went nuts with the opportunity to play around and were super-into designing awesome paper airplanes.Anywho, someone was...  

I previously posted about this tragedy in Ukraine - Manmade? That post had over 11,000 views! There are dozens more articles worth reading on that site also. Look under "Popular News Today". " 5 (Five) Sources confirms this and the local newspapers ...  

Authorities in the town of Kiev, Ukraine denied any spraying of "aerosolized medication" by aircraft over the city. This after it was reported that light aircrafts were seen flying over the forest market area that sprayed a aerosol substance to fight h1n1 or swine flu. 5 Sources confirms this and the local newspapers of Kiev also received hundreds of phone calls from residents and business owners close to the area the planes were spraying the...