Mesbin airplane backstory

I had a funny idea for part of the backstory of the Mesbin Space Probe Company
so it's been generations since anyone has ever had to know what an airplane is
and it was not considered high priority information to save during the starship crash, given that Mesbin was after all airless.
so very little is known about airplanes and for the most part no one cares.
trains, tunnels, and groundcars are the way to get around, and that's fine and accepted.
Flying machines are the domain of the space probe company though
but no one really considers them valid vehicles for people-moving.
But then say you're a school child and you're trying to pass notes in class
you're sat next to your friend at first and you can just hand them notes. This is fine until the teacher moves you apart.
You still need to fill the void with communication so this time you ball up your paper and toss it a few desks over. Fine, but it arrives all crumpled up and the funny doodles you drew don't look as cool

>reinvent the airplane with paper toys?

so you figure out that if you just fold the paper lengthwise a few times, you can throw it pretty far without it getting
yeah
that's basically it
but I will continue the story anyway
...without it getting so ugly and crumpled.
One day in your Kerbin studies class you hear about airplanes. This captures your imagination at just the right moment, because eventually note darts are enough to get you moved all the way to different corners of the room
now you can't throw your darts far enough! Not under Mesbin gravity, for sure!
You and your best friend are inseparable though
you have to figure out how to pass notes at a distance
so one night you stay up late trying to make a paper airplane
it takes a few nights of experimentation but you finally get one that will fly far enough. It's a convoluted mess and requires cutting and gluing

>wait but they already know about airplanes from school in general

just "oh they used to fly in the air but we don't have use for such things now"
they wouldn't have taught how airplanes work or anything
nothing more than a stock photo and a sentence or two
After class, you show your friends your new invention, and they think it's cool and want to see more, and figure out how to build them
but kerbal children, like human children, are not good at following instructions
so the convoluted mess is difficult to replicate

>you're making me wish i had the money to buy the RC plane parts i've been wanting

over the next few weeks you build better designs that fly further, straighter, and with simpler directions
you hear in the news that the MSPC is starting to seriously consider exploring the atmospheric moon of Kerbmun.
you find it mildly interesting as any child who follows the Space Probe Company does.
the next day something clicks in your mind
"we could use note planes on Kerbmun"
You try to find books about airplanes or note planes in the library
there is very, very little about it
Some works of fiction which depict airplane travel, but very little in the way of technical details
you realize you're pretty much the only one who knows about this kind of thing, and you make it your goal to find someone who matters at the Mesbin Space Probe Company and tell them about note planes.
By happy coincidence, your best friend's mother's dog's brother's owner's husband is the administrator of MSPC.
Eventually you realize, as your ego expands, that you are the expert on note planes.

>dog's brother's owner's

The scientists and engineers, they just don't see what you're talking about
they can't imagine what use this could be
it's just a toy
But you decide to prove your worth
You build a robotic plane and show up at the MSPC again with a serious proposal a few months later.
The administrator was in a good mood and lets you demonstrate the robotic note plane from the top of the Vehicle Assembly Chamber under pressure.
you manage to glide it all the way to a specific spot on the ground.
the plane breaks, but now you finally have the administrator's attention
and so in true Kerbal fashion, you're put in charge of a team of engineers with a budget that makes your allowance seem like mulch to try and develop a steerable landing vehicle for Kerbmun

...

"You" are Charlene Kerman, a 7th grade student who has just founded C7 Aerospace. (The Mesbin version, not the Kerbin version.)