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  2. Kline–Fogleman airfoil - Wikipedia

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    The KF airfoil was designed by Richard Kline and Floyd Fogleman. Aircraft wing showing the KFm4 Step. In the early 1960s, Richard Kline wanted to make a paper airplane that could handle strong winds, climb high, level off by itself and then enter a long downwards glide.

  3. Paper plane - Wikipedia

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    Paper airplanes are known to have been made as far back as the mid 19th century, based on an American children's book describing their construction from 1864. [ 2 ] The construction of a paper airplane, by Ludwig Prandtl at the 1924 banquet of the International Union of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics , was dismissed as an artless exercise by ...

  4. List of airline flights that required gliding - Wikipedia

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    Nose landing gear failed to properly retract after takeoff, crew unable to lock gear in extended position. Aircraft circled to expend fuel to reduce weight & fire hazards in event forced landing was required. Aircraft ran out of fuel, pilot successfully ditched plane in Neva River without injury to passengers or crew. 0: 52 30 May 1967

  5. Paper airplane sets world record while flying 82-miles - AOL

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    By RYAN GORMAN A paper airplane set a new Guinness world record as it flew 82 miles this month. A team of auxiliary U.S. Air Force volunteers launched the paper aircraft from a weather balloon ...

  6. Paper planes launched from space - Wikipedia

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    The developers continued through 2009, with hopes that China or Russia would back further efforts on the project. [5] Some 30 [4] to 100 [5] planes had been considered to make the descent, each gliding downward over what was expected to be the course of a week to several months. If one of the planes survived to Earth it would have made the ...

  7. Early flying machines - Wikipedia

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    Woodcut print of a kite from John Bate's 1635 book, The Mysteryes of Nature and Art in which the kite is titled How to make fire Drakes. The kite was invented in China, possibly as far back as the 5th century BC by Mozi (also Mo Di) and Lu Ban (also Gongshu Ban). [14] These leaf kites were constructed by stretching silk over a split bamboo ...

  8. How common are plane engine fires and bird collisions? An ...

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    Video of the plane appears to show flames shooting out on one side as the aircraft made its way back to Columbus. "Damn geese! First time seeing a fire and being involved in an emergency landing!"

  9. Airplane returns to airport after takeoff after hitting a ...

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    The engine of a Boeing 787-9 Dreamliner operated by China's Hainan Airlines caught on fire shortly after takeoff at 9:55 a.m. local time from Rome's Fiumicino Airport on Sunday after hitting a bird.

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