Fold a paper plane.
Pick your color.
Watch it fly.
Paper planes, DIY motorized planes, and sky-high fun for kids.Mix and match models, colors, and sizes — we'll show you exactly how to fold it, or grab a DIY motorized kit from the shop.
Same plane. Any color. Any size.
Pick a fold. Master a flight.
Each pattern has step-by-step photos, tuning tips, and a printable template you can color in. Start easy, then show off.
True airplanes that look made up.
Real planes, kid-run hangar voice. Read one, then fold something that matches the idea.
The Jet That Hung From a Hook
Ryan’s X-13 Vertijet was a jet that took off standing up — then hung itself on a trailer cable to come home. Two built. Edwards. Then two museums.
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The Plane That Folded Its Wingtips
North American’s XB-70 Valkyrie was a Mach 3 bomber that never became a bomber. At speed it folded its wingtips down — about 65 degrees — and rode its own shock wave. Six engines. Two jets. One museum.
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The Plane With Wings On Backwards
The Grumman X-29 wore its wings the wrong way — tips pointed forward, not back. Computers poked the nose about forty times a second. Two jets. Ames-Dryden. Then two museums.
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The Plane With a Twisty Wing
NASA’s Ames-Dryden AD-1 wore one long wing on a pin. Takeoff looked ordinary. Then the wing twisted — one tip forward, one tip back — up to 60 degrees. Seventy-nine flights. Then a museum.
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The Plane With Almost No Wings
NASA’s Northrop HL-10 made lift with a fat silver body instead of ordinary wings. A B-52 dropped it 37 times. It hit Mach 1.86 — then the Space Shuttle still chose real wings.
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The Plane That Wanted to Hover, Skim, and Fly High
Robert Bartini’s VVA-14 was a Soviet amphibian with three jobs: rise straight up, cruise like an airplane, and skim the sea on a cushion of air. The hover engines never arrived. The survivor still sits at Monino.
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The Pedal Plane That Crossed the Channel
On 12 June 1979 Bryan Allen pedaled a 70-pound Mylar airplane from England to France — no engine, just legs, a canard, and almost three hours of careful flying.
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The Airplane You Inflate Like a Pool Toy
Goodyear’s Inflatoplane was a real rubber airplane that packed into a box, puffed up in about five minutes, and flew on a tiny engine — less air pressure than a car tire.
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Your plane, your colors,
your name on the wing.
Pick any model, paint it in one of eight colors, choose mini / classic / jumbo, and add the pilot's name. Download a free printable template or jump right to the folding guide.
DIY motorized planes & kits.
When paper isn't enough: rubber-band gliders, foam electric planes, balsa build kits, and beginner RC. Each pick has parent notes and a skill level.
Rubber-Band Windup Glider
Wind, release, zoom across the yard.
Hand-Launch Electric Plane
Press go, toss, and it flies itself.
Balsa DIY Glider Build Kit
Build it yourself, then watch it soar.
Foam Chuck Glider 3-Pack
Three bright foam gliders. Ready to throw.
A hobby shop run by three brothers, ages 10, 8, and 6.
Captain folds. Co-Pilot picks colors. Wingman test-flies everything before it goes on the site. When a kit works in our living room, it shows up in the shop.
- Captain (age 10)Chief Pilot & CEO
- Co-Pilot (age 8)Head of Designs
- Wingman (age 6)Chief Test Flyer