I've never been good at folding paper airplanes. I lack the engineering background to be a successful paper pilot. My creations usually just tailspin before crashing to the ground. Luckily, one inventor has created a machine gun that can automatically fold and fire paper airplanes with lightning speed. This invention is so unnecessary and ridiculous that I have to have one.
According to Avery Thompson for Popular Mechanics: "Folding and throwing paper airplanes can be fun, but it's a lot of work for a little payoff. What if someone built a device that not only folded the paper but also launched the paper plane so you wouldn't have to?
Dieter Michael Krone is here to save the day. He built a giant machine gun that folds and then fires up to 120 paper airplanes per minute. The gun uses standard A5 paper as ammo. 3D-printed and repurposed copier parts, and a network of gears and belts, perform the folds."
About the Author
Alexis GajewskiAlexis Gajewski
Senior Content Strategist
Alexis Gajewski is a manufacturing writer and editor with nearly 20 years of experience covering the people, practices, and technologies that keep industrial facilities running. For more than a decade, she served as Senior Content Strategist for Plant Services, creating content for plant managers, engineers, and maintenance professionals on a variety of industrial topics.
During her tenure, Alexis worked to develop the brand’s digital strategy and helped launch and produce Great Question: A Manufacturing Podcast. She also created The Lighter Side of Manufacturing, a weekly blog that explored the inventive and sometimes humorous side of the industry.
Alexis co-founded Influential Women in Manufacturing, a recognition program that honored 49 women in its first two years, earned an industry award for Best Product Launch, and received a proclamation from Illinois Governor JB Pritzker and a commendation from U.S. Senator Tammy Duckworth.
She also led newsroom operations and development at a large media company where she set editorial standards, developed training curriculum, and helped support AI adoption for more than 150 editors across 80+ brands spanning manufacturing, industrial processing, automation, and more.
Additionally, Alexis works as a freelance writer and editor, and her areas of interest include continuous improvement, the skilled workforce, and the role of emerging technology on the plant floor.
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