Paper Airplane Thrown for World Record

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By Gareth Branwyn
Posted 2012/03/01 @ 9:00 pm
Category Fun & Games, General

After a number of attempts, John Collins, more commonly known by his superhero name, the Paper Airplane Guy, made it into the record books last weekend. On February 26th, in the Fry’s Hanger at McClellan AFB in CA, thrower Joe Ayoob tossed a Collins design 226 feet, 10 inches, officially breaking the existing world record which stood at 207 feet, 4 inches. Congrats to John and Joe!

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6 Responses to Paper Airplane Thrown for World Record

fire115 on March 2nd, 2012 at 9:04 am said:

ok im sorry but 69 meters is beatable. Back in USSR (days) paper airplanes were a very popular hobby, it was not unusual for the best one sheet models to reach the end of indoor soccer field which is 100 meters, no one was recording those, no one cared about the world records.

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- M. Kelsey on March 2nd, 2012 at 12:55 pm said:
  
  There are only two plausible responses to this:
  
  “Pics or it didn’t happen.”
  
  or
  
  “In Soviet Russia, paper airplane throws you.”
  
  I’ll let the voters decide…
  
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- Gronkie on March 5th, 2012 at 7:35 pm said:
  
  Documentation, documentation, documentation. Those paper airplane virtuosi are perfectly free to try to break this record, but until they do, with cameras and proper documentation, it’s all just tall tales.
  
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Gronkie on March 5th, 2012 at 7:36 pm said:

How about the design of this airplane so we can try it at home.

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