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Ken Blackburn (born March 24, 1963) is the former Guinness World Record holder for paper airplanes (time aloft). His first set the record in 1983 (16.89 seconds), resetting it in 1987 (17.2 sec), 1994 (18.8 sec) lost the record in 1996 and set the record of 27.6 seconds on 10/8/98 in the Georgia Dome.
Contestants from over 99 countries from around the world qualified for the 2009 competition. The third Red Bull Paper Wings world finals took place on May 4–5, 2012. The final round of the competition takes place in Red Bull's Hangar 7 in Salzburg , Austria , and is monitored by Guinness Book of World Records officials.
Flight 2216 is currently the deadliest plane crash of the 2020s decade, the deadliest crash involving a Boeing 737 Next Generation aircraft surpassing Ukraine International Airlines Flight 752, and the second-deadliest accident involving a Boeing 737 behind Lion Air Flight 610. 2024 marked the deadliest year in commercial aviation since 2018. [130]
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 ...
The highest altitude obtained by a paper plane was previously held by the Paper Aircraft Released Into Space (PARIS) project, which was released at an altitude of 27.307 kilometres (89,590 ft), from a helium balloon that was launched approximately 80 kilometres (50 mi) west of Madrid, Spain on October 28, 2010, and recorded by The Register's ...
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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.
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] The distance record (226 feet, 10 inches or 69.14 meters) was set by Joe Ayoob, with a plane constructed by John Collins, in February 2012. [3]