Unlike with passenger plane, paper airplanes are not propelled forward by engines but rather by their initial toss. Paper airplanes fly due to four main forces: drag, gravity, thrust and lift.

How high do planes fly? Commercial planes fly between 35,000ft and 42,000ft these days which is around 6.6 miles up in the air. But if they go too high it wouldn’t be good for anyone on board.

How To Make the Perfect Paper Airplane Jennifer Leman A graduate of the Science Communication Program at UC Santa Cruz, her work has appeared in The Atlantic, Scientific American, Science News and ...

All airplanes use air to create lift and fly, and different types of winds can alter the flight dynamics of the airplane. ... Remember, airplanes travel at high speeds on the runway to take off.