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I’ve been meaning to prepare this post for quite awhile, and it’s dedicated to Alice Mercer‘s son, Leroy, who’s a fan of flight and paper airplanes.

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Here are my choices for The Best Resources For Learning About Flight:

The History of Human-Powered Flight is an impressive interactive timeline from NPR.

How Do Things Fly? is a great interactive site from the Smithsonian. It is THE site to learn about anything related to flight. You can design and virtually fly your own plane, and you can even design and print-out your own paper airplane.

Marvellous early flying machines is a slideshow from The BBC.

Evolution of Flight infographic.

Flying cars: Grounded reality or ready for take off? is from the BBC.


Amateur space enthusiasts launch paper plane into space
is from The BBC.


The new vehicle set to revolutionise the skies
is from The BBC.

Drones on the home front is an interactive from The Washington Post.

Forces Of Flight is from The Smithsonian.

‘World’s first’ ornithopter takes flight is from The BBC.

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Here are animated paper airplane instructions.

More paper airplane instructions.

In Flight is a slideshow from The Boston Globe.

Here’s a video of the first human-powered helicopter:

Gliding High: Designing Paper Airplanes Based on the Physics of Flight is a lesson plan from The New York Times Learning Network.

Airships is a photo gallery from The Atlantic.

In flight: see the planes in the sky right now – interactive is a great interactive from The Guardian.

Flight Risk is an impressive BBC interactive infographic on plane crashes.

Infographic: The greatest turning points in aviation is from the BBC.

Pioneers of Flight has several interactives, and comes from the Smithsonian.

Feel free to additional suggestions.

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