Paper plane world record disputed An “unpure” paper dart has all-but claimed the world record for the longest paper airplane flight. American football quarterback Joe Ayoob’s mighty ball-tossing right arm launched a paper plane 69.1 metres, beating the previous mark by nearly six metres. The plane climbed fast, descended sharply but picked up sufficient speed …
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You had me worried for a second there. I thought it was PARIS that was challenged. I did wonder how they could have measured the altitude so precisely as to come up with this 6 m figure though.
And you might want to fix the sub-head. "Metres feet" are not a recognised SI unit (yet).
That is the right flight profile for a long distance flight - up, down to pick up speed and glide.
I am envious. Very few of mine have ever gone past the 30m mark. The ones that had were lucky to catch an updraft. Granted, I never had a football pro throwing them.
The really interesting thing here is that it looks like it was made out of normal paper. I have always found rice paper (the one engineers and navigators used to use for copying stuff in "lower tech" days) to yield much better results. The design looks conventional too - I cannot see any extra folds down the middle, wing folds, etc (these allow you to get longer distance with a less "crazy" flight path). In fact, it all looks like the old adage: "Pigs do fly, if sufficient thrust has been provided". Lots of thrust on this one though.
There's some detail on the Popular Mechanics site, where he explains a bit about the plane, calling it "the most technical plane I’ve ever made" and yes, it was A4 by design.
http://www.popularmechanics.com/technology/aviation/diy-flying/the-secrets-of-the-world-record-setting-paper-plane-7013184
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