When did people start making paper airplanes and did it predate the airplane craze? Is the modern shape that we fold paper planes into modeled after aircraft or something else?
In short, yes. u/AshkenazeeYankee gave a great answer to this a while ago: https://www.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/comments/737jy0/did_people_make_paper_airplanes_before_the/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=ios_app