Japanese man sets record for paper plane flight

The Telegraph ^ | 5/18/2009 | Julian Ryall in Tokyo

[bruinbirdman]

Japanese engineer has set the world record for the longest flight for a paper airplane, keeping his design aloft for 27.9 seconds.

After his record flight, Takuo Toda said that his achievement was merely the next step in his ambition of launching a paper plane from space.

[bruinbirdman]

I attest that in 1965 the bruinbirdman launched a paper aeroplane, folded from one sheet of paper, that remained aloft more than 1.5 minutes. The fete was accomplished from the 7th floor (Himalaya House) of Hedrick Hall, UCLA, atop the hills of Westwood.

[dayglored]

> I attest that in 1965 the bruinbirdman launched a paper aeroplane, folded from one sheet of paper, that remained aloft more than 1.5 minutes. The fete was accomplished from the 7th floor (Himalaya House) of Hedrick Hall, UCLA, atop the hills of Westwood.

Nice!

But I think the official competition has to be done from ground level...

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After his record flight, Takuo Toda said that his achievement was merely the next step in his ambition of launching a paper plane from space.

I hear that reentry is hell on paper airplanes.

[Theo]

bump.

[seton89]

http://www.bestpaperairplanes.com/

[DoughtyOne]

I notice that he too seemed to have launched from altitude.

Note this: "I had thought that the world record was impossible to break, but the key to breaking the record is how high you fly it," Mr Toda told The Daily Telegraph.

I have a design that just might push past one minute with little trouble at altitude.

Building paper airplanes that fly well is a great pass time.

[Gator113]

Do not let them get away with this!

Before long, all paper airplanes will be made in Japan.

[DoughtyOne]

My thought on that is that if the paper airplane were dropped by a Ratan plane that just goes up, but not into orbit, the plane might make it back. At about 17,000 mph, that paper plane would be toast.

The next big problem would be the atmosphere, upper level cold and wetness. This would destroy a paper plane. It would fall to earth in a clump.

[Gator113]

My brother and I used to fly them off of the roof on our house. I can still hear mom screaming from when she caught us up there.

[bruinbirdman]

http://www.bestpaperairplanes.com/

My design is not there.

yitbos

[KoRn]

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[sinanju]

Could this man be right?

That a paper airplane could somehow enter the atmosphere and land in one piece?

[Axenolith]

It could possibly survive. To survive, it would need to be in an earth-rotation matching free fall or else the scarce molecules it initially encountered at ~ X miles per second would probably just knock it apart, like it would look like it just turned to dust as it was hitting relatively denser areas.

If you put it up in one of those Spaceship 1 ballistic flights, it might make it. You might need special paper to keep it from being screwed up by dehydration stress in near vacuum, and putting a foil patch on it to reflect radar to track it is a must...

[freedumb2003]

Don’t blame me if you get totally addicted to this:

http://flightsimx.archive.amnesia.com.au/

[PugetSoundSoldier]

We will never catch up... They have a 4000 year history of origami and folding paper, we’ve been culturally handicapped by our ancestor’s ignorance of the power of the folded paper!

[Irishguy]

you just couldnt keep that to your self...LOL

57682 that not the distance thats my rank and 76.388m in distance — have to get high when going out the window!!!

[MrPiper]

Don’t blame me if you get totally addicted to this:

Thanks for wasting six minutes of my life! (but I did make it out the window :-)

[Bikkuri]

DEFINITELY addictive! :)
I just got 104.979m :D

What is the best, you have any idea?

[yankeedame]

I hear that reentry is hell on paper airplanes.

Ah,man, you're always,like, with these negative vibes.
(grin)

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