You’ve Been Folding Paper Airplanes Wrong This Whole Time. This Video Makes It Look Easy.

As kids, my brother and I use to have paper airplane competitions with our cousins. My design was always the same and it always fell flat as soon as it was thrown. Turns out, there is a science to making the perfect paper plane. John Collins broke the Guinness world record for the farthest distance flown by a paper airplane in 2012. Collins has studied aerodynamics and origami to ensure his planes are made perfectly. Take a look at this step-by-step tutorial. If only I had seen this when I was a kid.