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“I believe that I can extend your history of paper airplanes back to at least 1908-1909. I have in my collection photocopies of some articles from Aero magazine that indicate that paper models were a common technique for exploring aerodynamics.”
- Arie C. Koelewyn
“I bought a used paper airplane book from the 60’s. It quoted some guy saying that in 1918 he was sick and he would fly paper airplanes out of the hospital’s window. The guy’s name was H. G. G. Herklots. I thought that you might want to put that on your airplane history page.”
- Willy Logan
“I am 66 years old and remember very well a series of paper model warplanes which were distributed by General Mills, Inc., in connection with the Monday through Friday radio serial adventure program, “Jack Armstrong, All-American Boy.” The planes were offered in 1944, two at a time, for two Wheaties cereal boxtops and 5 cents.“The first two planes to be issued were the Curtis P-40 'Flying Tiger' and the Japanese 'Zero.' The next two were the British 'Spitfire' and the German 'Focke-Wulf.' These planes were constructed by cutting the planes out from heavy paper stock with scissors and rolling the fuselage around and gluing to make a 3-D body.
“The wings, elevators and rudder were glued on and a penny was used to add weight to the front of the plane to place the center of gravity over the wings. I believe a total of fourteen planes were produced. I used to buy as many as I could and build them for other kids, selling them for fifteen cents to twenty-five cents apiece.
“I still have one complete set of fourteen uncut model planes which I planned to let my grandsons play with, but I have only daughters and granddaughters, and they have not shown any interest in them. I wonder if any other folks out there have similar collections.”
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These paper airplane history comments came from a collection by Ken Blackburn, the most famous paper airplane enthusiast known. Ken Blackburn is a book writer about paper airplanes.
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