Paper plane world record disputed
Soar heads say A4 flew six metres past old record
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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 in its descent to enter a glide phase lasting many metres to ease past the old mark.
The plane used complied with Guinness World Record rules that allow use of a small strip of sellotape, a practice dubbed “unpure” by Australian paper plane guru Dylan Parker.
Parker says his new, tape-free, design should reach the 60 metre mark and hopes to unleash the weapon at the World Championships this May and to better his previous third place at the event.
But Guinness World Records is not yet willing to sign off on Ayoob’s toss, as it was not present at the event. The organisations says it is “awaiting evidence in order to verify if a record has been broken.”
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COMMENTS
PARIS is safe
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).
Australian Sellotape?
Missed a chance to reference "Durex" in the headline?
Re: How quaint
I always thought Sellotape was the 'sticky-backed plastic' they referred to. Was that something else?
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