WERE THERE paper airplanes prior to 1903?
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Kites and paper construction techniques originated in China, more than 2000 years ago, but there is no definitive answer as to the date and place where the very first paper airplane was invented.\n\nHowever, Leonardo da Vinci did make reference to building a model plane out of parchment in his notebooks. As Leonardo was born April 15, 1452 in Vinci, Italy, and died in May 2, 1519 in Cloux, France; his notebooks pre-date 1903 by about 400 years. \n\nTherefore the answer is yes, paper airplanes were around prior to 1903.
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Wright Brothers. They actually invent aeronautical engineering. Their basic principles are still used today. Their models airfoils indicated thin wings worked. Large wings and slow air thicker gives more lift. It was about the only refinement of their work. Their propeller was designed from the principles of airfoil as well and the curves are the ones still used today.\nThey rewrote the erroneous lifting tables of Lillinathall, Bell, others. Amazing really.
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Yeah, paper is paper.
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European aerospace researchers have shown the first prototype of a planned "flapless" unmanned air vehicle. The unmanned vehicle controls aerodynamics with air jets. See the article below in EE Times Magazine 3 April 2006 By R. Colin Johnson entitled "Tomorrow's aircraft flies without flaps". Unfortunately the graphics seem to be missing from the website.\nhttp://www.embedded.com/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=184417252&pgno=1\n\nhttp://www.EETimes.com
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Some paper is made brand-new from trees - either small trees harvested just for that purpose, or from sawmill scraps left over when larger trees are made into lumber. A second source of papermaking material is recycled fiber. Each year, more and more paper is recycled - its fibers used a second, third or fourth time. Every year, about 50% of the paper Americans use is recovered for recycling and other uses.\n\nAlmost all of the paper you use today is made of wood fibers. Some specialty papers, like stationery and money, are made from linen, cotton, or other plants. Other papers contain a combination of cellulose fibers and synthetics such as latex. Still others are made completely from synthetic materials such as polyolefine. You might find latex in a waterproof mariner's chart, or polyolefine in a rugged courier envelope. But you'll find natural fiber paper almost everywhere!
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Early pioneer of aviation
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Back in the late 1600's, the Dutch invented the two-sheet mold.   The average maximum stretch of an experienced vatman's arms was 44".  Many molds at that time were around 17" front to back because the laid lines and watermarks had to run from left to right.  Sounds big?...well to maximize the efficiency of paper making, a sheet this big was made, and then quartered, forming four 8.5" x 11" pieces. \n\nThis was well before paper machines dominated hand made paper labor.   A couple centuries later when machines dominated the trade (although many hand made paper makers still existed), and the United States decided on a standard paper size, they stuck with the same size so as to keep the hand made paper makers in business.\n\nOddly enough, the United States used two different sizes - the 8" x 10.5" and the 8.5" x 11".   Separate committees came up with separate standards, the 8" x 10.5" for the government and the 8.5" x 11" for the rest of us.  Once these committees found out about each other a couple years later, they agreed to disagree until the early 1980's when Reagan finally proclaimed that the 8.5" x 11" was the official standard sized paper.\n\nUnited States History\n\nNot until World War I or shortly after was a standard paper size agreed to in the United States.   Interestingly enough, within six months of each other, two different paper sizes were set as the standard; one for the government and one for the rest of us. \n\n1.   In 1921, the first director of the Bureau of the Budget established an interagency advisory group with the President's approval called the Permanent Conference on Printing which established the 8" x 10½" as the general U.S. government letterhead standard.   This extended an earlier establishment made by the former President Hoover, the Secretary of Commerce at the time, who established the 8" x 10½" as the standard letterhead size for his department. \n\n2.   Now, during the same year, a Committee on the Simplification of Paper Sizes consisting of printing industry representatives was appointed to work with the Bureau of Standards as part of Hoover's program for the Elimination of Waste in Industry.   This group came up with basic sizes for all types of printing and writing papers.  The size for "letter" was a 17" x 22" sheet while the "legal" size was 17" x 28" sheet.  The later known U.S. letter format was these sizes halved (8 ½" x 11" and 8 ½" by 14").\n\nEven in the selection of the 8 ½" x 11", no special analysis was made to prove this was the optimum size for commercial letterhead.   The Committee that developed the sizes did so using one objective - "to reduce inventory requirements for paper into sizes which would cut from a minimum trimming waste."
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Airplane: Aeroplane in American.\n\nMap of USSR: A graphical representation of the defunct Union of Soviet Socialist republics which existed in the 20th century, collapsed in 1991 and was based on the country now called Russia from which countries like Ukraine, Russia, Georgia, Uzbekistan, Estonia etc. emerged.
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Johann Vaaler, a Norwegian, traditionally gets the credit for the first paper clip in 1899. So proud were the Norwegians of their countryman's invention that during World War II they fastened paper clips to their lapels to defy the Nazi occupation forces. For a Norwegian to wear a paper clip might mean an arrest! The function of the clip to bind things together took on the meaning of people joining together to resist the Germans. \n\nVaaler's device received an American patent in 1901. But was it the first paper clip? No.\n\n\nVaaler's American patent drawing shows several kinds of paper clips, from square to triangular to one that looks a lot like the elliptical ones in wide use today. But the wire does not form the familiar loop within a loop. An American, Matthew Schooley of Pennsylvania, had patented a "paper clip or holder" in 1896. In 1900, Cornelius Brosnan of Springfield, Mass., patented what the industry considers the first successful paper clip. Other versions date as far back as the 1870s.\n\n\nBut the Gem paper clip, the familiar one illustrated here, existed on paper as early as April 27, 1899. It appears on a patent issued to William Middlebrook of Waterbury, Conn. (The whole story is detailed in Henry Petroski's "The Evolution of Useful Things," Alfred A. Knopf, 1992.) \n\nThe Gem clip probably originated in Great Britain. By 1908, the simple, elegant Gem was being touted as the most popular paper clip in America.
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The balloon you see today was invented by Michael Faraday in the 1800's, but the manufacturing did not start until the early 1900's.
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the common paper of the time was usually canvas, made of cotton, or another soft fabric, or animal skin... They also pressed processed bark and other things, along with animal-hid glue but it was on a much smaller scale
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the first real fighter plane was the nieuport(1909), and it was french. The first plane in the US airforce it was the signal corp's Wright brother's military flyer(1909). Military aircraft started to develop around 1909
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Which paper Airplanes can fly farther
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There's a little more to it than that. These sites will help you to find what you're looking for.\n\nhttp://www.disclosureproject.org/Outsidethebox-TedLoderPaper.htm\n\nhttp://www.disclosureproject.org/writings.htm\n\nYou can follow links in these pages to see the actual models built from patents aquired in the 1950's.\nYou could build one too.
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They were made in the 1940's through to at least 1970.  Below is a link to eBay where there are a few available.\n\nThere is also a cool photo of an advertisement offer from 1965:\n\nhttp://www.flickr.com/photos/54177448@N00/104270342/\n\nOne more link for you:\n\nhttp://search.tias.com/cgi-bin/altavista.fcgi?matchAll=1&store=%2Fstores%2Fkovels&database=%2Faltavista%2Fkovels%2Fitems&catSortBy=description&sortFields=subCategory%2Cdesc&max=500&resultPageTemplate=%2Fpages%2Fstores%2Fkovels%2Ftemplates%2Fsearch.templates%2FResultPage.html&resultItemTemplate=%2Fpages%2Fstores%2Fkovels%2Ftemplates%2Fsearch.templates%2FResultItem.txt&resultTableTemplate=%2Fpages%2Fstores%2Fkovels%2Ftemplates%2Fsearch.templates%2FResultTable.txt&searchText=mechanical%20pencil&sysCat=planters-peanuts
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There seems to be a part missing - as it is, this doesn't quite make sense.\n\nPossibly airplane:Wright::telephone:Bell
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Im an Army guy but love old airplanes!! The B-58 Hustler, a supersonic delta wing airplane. It had this cool centerline fueltank/atomic bomb combination. Lots of pages about it....just google Last time I saw one was at Chanute AFB when I was a CAP cadet in 80's   ....Why would a nice lady like you want to know about an old airplane for?? I would talk to the people in the sight i showed you about the patch...look for other sights by typing B-58 in google..lots of sights with people who flew, sombody would know him .