Fly away high.

Dillon Ruble throws his paper airplane. (Courtesy Dominic Alberico)
Nathan Erickson (left), Dillon Ruble (center), and Garrett Jensen wanted to break the record. (Courtesy Dominic Alberico)
The men looked at fast jets. They modeled their paper plane on real planes. (Jonathan Ahl-St. Louis Public Radio)
The Boeing company builds planes. (Gavin McIntyre/The Post And Courier via AP)
Try following these steps to fold your own paper airplane. (Stock)

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Fold. Throw. Try again. Two young men folded a paper airplane. They worked to make it perfect. They wanted it to fly far.

It did! It flew almost as far as a football field.

Pray: Thank God for the idea of flight. We learn from His design of birds how to make planes fly.

Read More: Dillon Ruble and Garrett Jensen are Boeing engineers. They are sons of Boeing engineers. Boeing designs and sells airplanes in St. Louis, Missouri. The two young men used to make paper airplanes at company picnics. They spent 500 hours testing paper planes. They named their final plane Mach 5. Mach 5 flew almost 290 feet in Crown Point, Indiana. That’s a Guinness World Record!

The writer of Proverbs 30 says one thing “too wonderful” for him to grasp is “the way of an eagle in the sky.” (verses 18-19)