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They could have at least shown the plane!

>> ^ChaosEngine:

They could have at least shown the plane!


Yeah, seriously.

The nerd in me wants to say awesome. but the cynic in me says, "really? life long dream to break a record in paper airplane flights? Really?!!

Probably was a lifelong dream to break a record...any record. He just figured that the paper-plane throwing one was the only one he'd have a shot at...

>> ^VoodooV:

The nerd in me wants to say awesome. but the cynic in me says, "really? life long dream to break a record in paper airplane flights? Really?!!

This is a serious record, more for the airplane design than for the throwing brawn. This isn't "most eggs eaten in 5 minutes". There are flight engineers who spend thousands of hours on this because it's relevant to their field and demonstrates their understanding of thrust, lift and glide. I've heard the engineers actually spend more time making the tools to form the plane than designing or throwing the plane itself.

The previous record stood for nearly 9 years. That's a pretty damn long time for a world record.

That would be 69.14 meters in metric. Barbarians.

Hey, don't run down competitive egg eating. That's a science too.

@Ornthoron - touche!

If you are going to fold an ISO sized piece of paper, you made it so far - you are almost at metric anyway - why revert to imperial!

Wait... the Frys dot com hangar at... McClellan Air Force Base? Since when do corporations directly sponsor the military?

Here it is>> ^ChaosEngine:

They could have at least shown the plane!

>> ^moonsammy:

Wait... the Frys dot com hangar at... McClellan Air Force Base? Since when do corporations directly sponsor the military?


You forgot to click the sarcasm box... I hope...