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New Paper Airplane Flight Record Achieved

Posted January 04, 2010 9:07 AM

From Neatorama:

A Japanese man has set a new world record for "maximum time aloft" for a paper airplane. With a bend of the knees and an arch of the back, a Japanese engineer today set a world flight record for a paper plane, keeping his hand-folded construction in the air for 26.1 seconds.  Using a plane specially designed for "long haul" flights, Takuo Toda narrowly failed to match his lifetime best of 27.9 seconds, a Guinness world record set in Hiroshima earlier, but achieved with a plane that was held together with cellophane tape.

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Re: New Paper Airplane Flight Record Achieved

01/04/2010 12:29 PM

I'm not really an insider, but some connections I know who are have told me in the strictest confidence that the US military has a secret paper airplane based on crashed UFO technology that can stay aloft for as much as 57 minutes.

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01/05/2010 12:36 AM

Apparently TESLA made a paper plane that stayed up even longer.

There is absolutely no proof, so that means it must be true and it's being suppressed by "Big Oil" interests.

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01/05/2010 5:02 AM

Come on CR4 we can do better than that surely!

Does anyone know the rules?

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