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    Dayton Aviation Heritage

    National Historical Park Ohio

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Junior Ranger camp paper airplane take off point.

Paper airplanes can be a simple toy to some or an aeronautics research tool to others. Paper airplanes can be folded into shapes like basic darts and gliders, to high-tech planes.

Did you know that paper airplanes use the same principles of flight as airplanes and that paper airplanes are used to study aerodynamics by scientists, engineers and students?

There are many paper airplane models to make. You can make your own design or click here for directions to make THE BAT.

Safe Flying!

 
Kite

Make Your Own KITE!

The Wright brothers used kites to figure out how to roll an aricraft.
Click here to make your own kite.

Did You Know?

Paul Laurence Dunbar House

The Dunbar House in Dayton, Ohio, was purchased by Paul for his mother in 1903. On July 23, 1936, the Dunbar House became the first state memorial to honor an African American.