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The planes were to have been made from heat-resistant paper treated with silicon. [5] As the Japanese/JAXA project was outlined, scientists would have had no way to track the airplanes or to predict where they might land; and as 70% of the Earth's surface is covered in water, the craft would have anticipated a wet reunion with the planet. Each ...
The Paper Aircraft Released Into Space (PARIS) project was a privately organized endeavour undertaken by various staff members of the British information technology website The Register to design, build, test, and launch a lightweight aerospace vehicle, constructed mostly of paper and similar structural materials, into the mid-stratosphere and recover it intact.
The Kline–Fogleman airfoil or KF airfoil is a simple airfoil design with single or multiple steps along the length of the wing. It was originally devised in the 1960s for paper airplanes. In the 21st century the KF airfoil has found renewed interest among hobbyist builders of radio-controlled aircraft, due to its simplicity of construction. [1]
By RYAN GORMAN A paper airplane set a new Guinness world record as it flew 82 miles this month. A team of auxiliary U.S. Air Force volunteers launched the paper aircraft from a weather balloon ...
Paper airplanes are known to have been made as far back as the mid 19th century, based on an American children's book describing their construction from 1864. [ 2 ] The construction of a paper airplane, by Ludwig Prandtl at the 1924 banquet of the International Union of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics , was dismissed as an artless exercise by ...
Pan American Airways offered to fly designs of paper airplanes that originated in Japan to the contest. He entered and, out of 12,000 entries from 28 countries, won in two categories: duration and distance. [3] His designs have sold millions throughout Japan and the world. He is the author of a multi-volume work on high-performance paper ...
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Paper airplane day celebrations typically include social gatherings at which participants create and fly paper airplanes. These events often feature contests in two basic flight categories: "distance" and "time in air". As of 2012, Takuo Toda holds the world record for the longest time in air (27.9 seconds). [2]