Paper Plane Low-poly 3D model

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A plane made of paper is a simple toy aircraft, typically a glider crafted from folded paper or cardboard. The earliest paper airplanes originated in ancient China around 500 BCE, when mass production of paper became common, and people began folding paper for various purposes including art forms like origami. After thousands of years passed, model paper planes remained the dominant air crafts whose designs could be easily understood even though their ability to fly long distances was greatly affected by high drag forces. Innovators of powered flight studied these models to build larger machines that flew more smoothly and farther than ever before thought possible. Pioneers such as Leonardo da Vinci and Sir George Cayley created innovative paper gliders in the 18th and 19th centuries, respectively. Later inventors, including Alberto Santos-Dumont and Clément Ader also made use of paper models to test and refine their concepts before putting them into practice. In many different ways people have found new uses for old crafts over time. With simple folding techniques people are still creating their own paper gliders using cardboard or paper that resemble flying planes in appearance and flight patterns despite limitations they pose in terms of distance flown during flights taken while holding onto handles attached near the nose tip area where weight balance should remain optimal at all times so it stays aloft as desired when flapping its wings aggressively against gravity