Alright, so you wanna know who cooked up the paper airplane, huh? Well, lemme tell ya, it ain’t as simple as sayin’ who made the best darn apple pie in the county. It’s kinda like this, nobody really knows for sure, see? It’s been around for ages, like, way back when, longer than my old mule, Bess, that’s for sure.
Them Wright brothers, you know, the ones who made them flyin’ machines? Yeah, them fellas, they say they messed around with paper airplanes too. Imagine that! Big shot airplane makers playin’ with paper like little kids! But that don’t mean they invented the paper airplane, just that they used ’em. Makes sense though, gotta start somewhere, right? Kinda like learnin’ to bake with mud pies before you get to the real deal.
Now, I heard tell that folks were flinging paper around even before them Wright fellas were born. Way back in the 1800s, they started callin’ ’em “paper aeroplanes.” Fancy name for somethin’ so simple, if you ask me. But that’s how them city folk are, always gotta make things sound complicated.
- Paper’s been around a long, long time.
- Folks been foldin’ and flyin’ it for ages.
- Just like breathin’, nobody really thinks about who started it.
See, paper itself, that’s the real key. You can’t have a paper airplane without paper, right? That’s just common sense. And paper’s been around for donkey’s years. Folks been writin’ on it, wrappin’ stuff in it, and I reckon, tossin’ it around too, for a good long while.
So, this whole “who invented it” thing, it’s a bit of a goose chase. Nobody really knows for sure who the first fella or gal was to fold a piece of paper and make it fly. Coulda been some bored farmer, coulda been some kid playin’ hooky from school, coulda been anybody! It ain’t like they put their name on it, you know? They just did it, like breathin’ or scratchin’ your head when you’re thinkin’ hard.
Think about it, you take a piece of paper, you fold it a bit here, a bit there, and whoosh it flies! It’s just somethin’ folks do. Like whittlin’ a stick or hummin’ a tune. It’s in our nature, I reckon. To play, to tinker, to make somethin’ outta nothin’. That’s the human way, ain’t it?
So, the long and short of it is, there ain’t no single person you can point to and say, “Yep, that’s the one who invented the paper airplane.” It’s more like a whole bunch of folks, over a whole lotta years, all messin’ around with paper and figuring out how to make it fly. It’s a people’s invention, I’d say. Belongs to all of us.
And that, my friend, is the story of the paper airplane, as best as I can tell ya. It ain’t a fancy story, but it’s the truth, as far as I know it. Now, if you’ll excuse me, I gotta go feed them chickens.
But before I go, here’s one last thing to think on. Maybe the who ain’t as important as the what. The what is the fun, the joy, the simple pleasure of makin’ somethin’ fly with your own two hands. That’s what really matters, don’t ya think?
And that’s all she wrote.
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