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Kid friendly information for parents and teachers about airplanes. Get your child or student excited about flying!

How fast planes go always piques kid's interest in flying. Here's some helpful info on the subject for parents and educators.

If your kid or student is interested in space, flying, rockets, or planes it's a cool thing to tell them about astronauts. Here are some of history's coolest astronauts for parents and educators

Fun information for parents and teachers about some of history's coolest spaceships. Use this info to inspire your kid's curiosity!

Here are some of history's coolest aviators and pilots - a list especially assembled to stimulate kid's interest and curiosity. Great for parents and educators.

Here are some cool prep answers for parents and educators about flying and planes.

Making paper airplanes is a fun, easy, and educational activity for kids. Here are some tips for parents and educators to help you along the way.

Here in the PowerUp Lab we are developing products and educational kits by integrating Origami and Technology. We decided to open our lab door to our PowerUp community and share our dilemmas and hear your opinion.

POWERUP Toys (Toy Fair Booth #2789), the creator of the first smartphone-controlled paper airplane motor kit, is introducing three new products at Toy Fair 2019 – POWERUP 4.0, POWERUP RACERS, and OKO MultiView.

Wright Brothers were engineers, mechanics, innovators and inventors. Their hands-on experience working with bicycles, motors and machinery gave them the belief that a flying machine was truly possible. POWERUPs founder, Shai, had a similar experience that inspired him to create motorized paper airplanes.

Attempting to post a project to the Flightdeck creators platform? Included are screenshots for parts of the upload process that have proven to be a bit challenging.

Which child hasn’t dreamed of soaring the skies, spending time in space, and seeing the world from above? At one point in time, we were all that child. Now, thanks to the innovative and creative minds at POWERUP Toys, we’re being given the chance to step into a cockpit of our own.

With the rotating, remote controlled wide-angle camera, your license just got upgraded from trainee to pilot. Thanks to the POWERUP FPVs six times more powerful motor, now you can fly your fleet further and faster than ever before! Do flips and tricks with ease through the interactive, live-video feed on your smartphone with the free POWERUP app.

It's one of our favorite days of the year, and we're celebrating with a sale!  We're tipping our hats to dads everywhere...

I remember when my dad taught me to fold and fly my first paper airplane. It was… frustrating, to say the least. After folding my first paper plane, failure never entered my mind.

It is an exciting time for PowerUp right now, especially given the latest trends in retail. Following the two biggest toy conventions in the world – Nuremburg and NYC – several trends have arisen in the tech and toy industries that truly make PowerUp a bull’s-eye in today’s market. Here are some that have us super excited to introduce PowerUp 3.0 this summer: