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Presents an article about a flight in year 1947 in a crafted-balloon made up of Japanese paper which had carried a Japanese bomb across the Pacific to wreak havoc on the western United States.

The article discusses creating models of spacecraft and rockets. The author cites that the 2013 Euro Scale Modeling exhibition in the Netherlands featured hundreds of space models that were made of paper. The author says the website Paper Aeronatics and Space Administration at papermodelers.com offers downloadable space models. The author notes that plastic, wood and metal can also be used to create space models.

The article discusses the Guinness World Record for the highest flight of a paper airplane, 96,563 feet, focusing on the design and construction of the plane by the cadets at the Fox Valley Composite Squadron, part of the Illinois Wing of the Civil Air Patrol.

The article discusses the inexplicable lights reported by pilots from the 415th Night Fighter Squadron following their aircraft, while the Bristol Beaufighter crew, pilot Edward Schuleuter, radar observer Donald J. Meiers, and intelligence officer Fred Ringwald, was flying along the Rhine north of Strasbourg in November 1944. It details the efforts initiated to find out the cause of the mysterious lights, which Meiers called "foo fighters," but to no avail.

The article profiles the aerospace engineer Ken Blackburn. He settled on airplane design as a life study and began to reshape his future in paper that he crafted reams of paper airplanes in learning the rudiments of aerodynamics. He learned about concepts that most people do not encounter until they train to be pilots or study aerodynamics by experimenting for years with variations on a fundamental airplane made from a square sheet of paper.

The author reminisces his childhood experience in making paper airplanes and studying aeronautics. He says that he was able to make different paper airplanes when he was a child by reading origami books. He adds that his paper fighters came along when he began college at the University of California at Berkeley. He relates making paper airplanes with his life as a struggling aviator.

A letter to the editor is presented in response to an article, "Paper, Scissors, Rocket" published in the October 2015 issue is presented.

A personal narrative is presented which discusses the author's experience of designing and building a paper airplane to launch at his commencement ceremony from Purdue University.

Presents an excerpt from the book "The Papers of Wilbur and Orville, Volume One, 1899-1905."

Presents excerpts from the book 'The Papers of Wilbur and Orville Wright, 1899-1905,' volume one.

Presents excerpts from the book 'The Papers of Wilbur and Orville Wright, 1899-1905,' volume one.

Reports on the highlights and participants of the World's Greatest Paper Airplane Contest held on September 9, 1995. Three categories of the competition; Classes of airplanes fielded in the contest; Winners of the competition.

Focuses on the culling of Pan American Airways papers by the Pan American Historical Foundation. Amount spent by the foundation for boxes of historical materials at Pan Am's bankruptcy auction in September 1992; Selection of materials for the University of Miami's Otto Reichter Library, Archives and Special Collections Department.

Focuses on the contribution of Crocker Snow in aviation history in line with the exhibition of his work at the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum's Paul E. Garber Preservation, Restoration and Storage Facility in Suitland, Maryland. Background of his career in aviation; Description of his work in the U.S. Army Air Forces; Details of Snow's archival materials exhibited at the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum.

Reports on the National Air and Space Museum in Washington D.C.'s Great Paper Airplane Contest in the museum's Pioneer of Flight gallery. Conduct of the contest to entertain the children who visit the museum; Procedure of the contest; Use of paperclips to produce different centers of gravity for the airplanes.

The article discusses papers published within the issue, including one on the key role of astronaut Jim Lovell in the Gemini and Apollo 13 missions, and another on the ability of remotely piloted vehicles to fly reconnaissance missions.

Reports on the refurbishment and reactivation of two US Air Force SR-71 Blackbird spyplanes. Handing of the ownership papers and keys to Brigadier General Bill Ruthledge, commander of the Blackbird unit; History of the SR-71; Grounding of the aircraft in 1989; Return of retired designers to work.

The article reports on the development of Glenn Curtiss Memorial Park at the village of Hammondsport in New York City. Richard Gardiner, town supervisor, mentions that the town brought eight acres of lakefront property from developer Michael Doyle for $900,000 in unknown donations. Moreover, he told the "Star-Gazette" late last December 2007 that the project did not cost the taxpayers anything. However, Geoffrey Grimsman told the paper that the project is a happy ending on the part of many.

The article reports that the Raab Collection in Ardmore, Pennsylvania which deals with historic papers has unveiled a collection of letters and by-laws that served to create the women pilots' organization, Ninety-Nines. The organization was named after the number of attendees at its first meeting. The collection was priced at $16,000 by the Raab Collection which was purchased by the U.S. Library of Congress.

Reveals that approximately six percent of Americans do not believe that astronauts have landed on the moon. Reference to the video entitled `Was It Only A Paper Moon?'; Speculations on the reason some persons do not believe in visits to the moon; Arguments for and against visits to the moon.

The article reviews the Bullet Space Pen available at the Smithsonian Museum Store in the U.S.

The article discusses a tablecloth known as the Doolittle tablecloth and states that it contains the signatures of several aviators, scientists, and friends of U.S. pilot Jimmy Doolittle, and that Doolittle donated the tablecloth to the U.S. Air and Space Museum in 1974.