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Original URL: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2012/05/04/vulture_zeit/

Germans hail Vulture 1 spaceplane

Die Zeit gets cosy with PARIS

By Lester Haines

Posted in SPB, 4th May 2012 10:18 GMT

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Our German readers might like to nip out today and grab a copy of this week's Die Zeit, which has a handy guide on how to make the ultimate paper plane.

Paper aircraft instructions in this week's Die Zeit [1]We're obliged to Thorsten Winterer for whipping out his camera this morning to record part of Die Zeit's comprehensive coverage (see right, click on snap for a big version).

Thorsten notes that the article has a "Hall of Fame", headed up by our very own Vulture 1, the Guinness World Record [2]-holding flagship of our Paper Aircraft Released Into Space (PARIS) mission.

The blurb reads: "In 2010, British scientists let a paper plane ascend to 26,000 metres using a helium balloon. From there, it descended calmly down to Earth."

We're not sure that Die Zeit has completely captured the intricacies of our Vulture 1 release mechanism [3], but it has done a nice job on rendering the spaceplane itself, albeit with our heroic Playmonaut [4] labelled as a "Kamera":

Detail from Die Zeit's article, showing the Vulture 1

You can find out full PARIS coverage right here [5], although of course we've now moved on to LOHAN [6], our Low Orbit Helium Assisted Navigator. ®