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- Atario, on 05/18/2009, -0/+81Not even a *link* to a video? Really?
*sigh*
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RwaS7gkgaKM - unknamed, on 05/19/2009, -0/+32I'm digging you up for the link but....
I was a little disappointed. - vibrokatana, on 05/19/2009, -0/+25On time I was in space. I threw the airplane as hard as I could and I am pretty sure it managed to break orbit and is now cruising through the solar system.
- jah37066, on 05/19/2009, -0/+18I was at cruising altitude in a commercial airliner and i made one from a napkin and i'm pretty sure after i dropped it out the emergency exit it was airborne for a good five minutes.
- purkel, on 05/18/2009, -0/+18damn, i want to see more pictures of this plane.
- inactive, on 05/19/2009, -0/+17http://www.break.com/index/amazing-paper-airplane- ...
This guy launches a paper airplane off the 30th floor of a building in the financial district of New York City. The flight it goes on without crashing is pretty amazing. - t0ny, on 05/19/2009, -0/+15What are the rules to break the record? I dropped a paper airplane from my rc plane a while ago and had it fly for a few mins and land about 500 feet away. :p
- Greengoo, on 05/18/2009, -3/+14This is why Japan rocks.
- suntzusputnik, on 05/19/2009, -1/+12longest ever recorded flight. people don't often record these kind of things
- IHaveCrayons, on 05/19/2009, -0/+9Wow I remember reading a really long article, about a year ago when I was searching how to make cool paper planes (lame I know), about the man that previously held this record... he put a lot of effort in it. I guess records are meant to be broken.
Hey, found it on Google:
http://www.paperplane.org/Record/100898.htm
He only got beat by .3 seconds. - nairbil, on 05/19/2009, -0/+7Anyone know if there's a tutorial on how to fold it?
- Krinkov, on 05/19/2009, -1/+7yeah, this and tentacle rape anime.
- fangor, on 05/19/2009, -0/+6"After his record flight, Takuo Toda said that his achievement was merely the next step in his ambition of launching a paper plane from space."
What a bad ass.
It'll never work, barring some very loose terminology surrounding what constitutes paper, but still, what a bad ass. - UMDWei, on 05/19/2009, -0/+6It's funny we'd watch a video of the 27.9 second flight and think it's totally awesome. But if it were only 25 seconds long, no one would give a sh*t.
- shapiro500, on 05/19/2009, -0/+6This is such a contrast from the article right below this about the guy who ate his son's eyeballs.
- Nephersir7, on 05/19/2009, -0/+5I actually got his book for christmas when i was 8 years old and really loved paper airplanes It was a great read and it included lots of planes designs.
- FortyCaliber, on 05/19/2009, -0/+5It would have to move very slowly.
Meteors are moving over 25,000 mph.
A plane, with a high drag to weight ratio, would move much slower. - tgc1, on 05/19/2009, -0/+5When I was a kid I made one that I threw outdoors at a local park. It got taken up in a gust of wind somehow and flew down the block. Thing must have flown around for a good 2 minutes. Ended up circling a house down the block and then falling to the ground. I was astonished at the time. And go figure, noone was around to witness it but me. Craziest paper plane flight I ever saw.
It wasn't one of those pointy ones. It was one of the blunt nosed ones. I suspect because it had a pretty balanced weight, the gust of wind really helped propel it that far without it diving like most planes do. - benroy, on 05/19/2009, -0/+5The evil part of me thinks that would be a great method of advertising.
The good part of me thinks that is littering.
The neutral part of my thinks I just watched a video. - SkateorDie, on 05/19/2009, -0/+5Wow, a lot of people on Digg don't understand the basics behind reentry into Earth's atmosphere. The only reason spaceships and meteorites burn up in our atmosphere is because of the high speeds they are traveling at when they hit the gases. If we could launch a paper airplane from a geosynchronous orbit above our atmosphere, it could be feasible that a paper airplane could survive the trip down. I'm not sure about how we could launch a plane at the edge of our atmosphere without any type of problems though. (altitude, speed reached before hitting the atmosphere, ect)
- inactive, on 05/19/2009, -0/+4+1 for tentacle rape!!
- gerrylazlo, on 05/19/2009, -0/+4worse camera operator ever.
- batshitcrazy, on 05/19/2009, -0/+3i can't find the exact pattern, or maybe i just learned it wrong... but one time in fifth or sixth grade i threw a paper airplane, it got caught in an updraft, circled hundreds of feet up and never came back! was kinda like this one:
http://www.10paperairplanes.com/how-to-make-paper- ... - PandaBearShenyu, on 05/19/2009, -0/+3I hear when you're high on drugs, time stops being linear...
- bag2p, on 05/19/2009, -0/+3what?
- icndvl, on 05/19/2009, -1/+490 Million to drop a paper plan from space. Sounds like a good deal!
- Trav1289, on 05/19/2009, -0/+3My dad was the one to fly this contraption. He said some damn bacon gun shot him down, and if it was not for this bacon gun he could have gone another five seconds.
- spoon088, on 05/19/2009, -0/+3Dumbest post in a while theysayjump. I never thought Diggers could lower the bar but they keep proving me wrong.
- FlaNative, on 05/19/2009, -0/+3I made one for a kid named Darrel in 7th grade that flew over the school, the entire PE class stopped and stared.
He launched it from the black asphalt basketball court, it caught thermals and circled up, spiraled over the school for about a 1/4 mile, it was in the air for over 5 minutes.
It was a fluke, but can be verified. - rdldr1, on 05/19/2009, -1/+4This guy has been listening to too much M.I.A.
- oda1, on 05/19/2009, -0/+3*ring ring*
haha, no I'm just yanking your chain.
but seriously
*ring ring*
it's your lost childhood. - Danoz, on 05/19/2009, -0/+3My friends and i found a spot where two mountain ridges, cliff walled, meet (this is in Australia, near Katoomba), and with a nice breeze you can launch a paper plane into the valley between the two ridges and have it fly for 15 minutes fairly easily. it circles around and round catching drafts and returning it to its starting position. You have to have a good day and a fairly well folded plane but most times we go out there we'll have one or two fly for an extended period of time. A good way to waste time...
- sageerrant, on 05/19/2009, -0/+3No. Wind, obviously, could carry a plane aloft indefinitely.
But at least you had fun, right? - StuartGibson, on 06/14/2009, -0/+3The atmosphere isn't "hot", there's just a lot of friction in air at those sort of speeds.
- sorepheet, on 05/19/2009, -0/+2Is it reentry and the speed that makes the shuttles heat up? Does the paper plane have enough strength to survive that?
- sorepheet, on 05/19/2009, -0/+2@ihavecrayons:
When you wrote; "Hey I found it on Google..." I immediately thought of Navi; "Hey! Listen! " - purple, on 05/19/2009, -0/+2Isn't it obvious? One sheet of paper, anything cut off cannot be reattached, thrown from the ground with no wind assistance, timed until it touches the ground again.
Or are the conditions depicted in the video not clear enough for you? - ledguitar, on 05/20/2009, -0/+2Damn it takes about half the flight for the cameraman to even find the plane.
- purple, on 05/19/2009, -0/+2Funny thing is that when they do record them, they come nowhere close to the record. Stop undermining this guys achievement.
- PillCosby, on 05/19/2009, -0/+2its like my moms home videos.
- mauso, on 05/19/2009, -0/+2And this: http://cdn-static.viddler.com/flash/publisher.swf? ...
- killerpotato, on 05/19/2009, -0/+2You probably weren't following the same strict conditions, ie. your planes probably picked up drafts or weren't launched from ground level.
- mrpunman, on 05/19/2009, -0/+2Video, or it didn't happen
- sageerrant, on 05/19/2009, -0/+1Atmosphere.
Oh, were you asking how that would work? Well, there's this whole gravity thing... - DulcetTone, on 05/19/2009, -0/+1That is a great basic plane design. I had some amazing flights in a windstorm with a paper helicopter (you've seen these, right? Not as fancy as the description, really). One went about 1/8th of a mile and probably took 2 minutes to come down.
Of course, wind makes everything different. I have to expect this guy's contest rules specify an enclosed space with airhandling turned off. - Gloogle, on 05/19/2009, -0/+1I was there...
- 4rp4n3t, on 05/20/2009, -0/+1It did. Until I made it into paper planes...
- LucidHawk, on 05/19/2009, -1/+2This article is ***** it doesn't mention what the rules are.
Sure I could make a paper airplane that can stay in the air for 3+ minutes if I'm allowed to send it off of the tallest building in the world..
If say it's required that he drop it without using his arm to motion it forward and it's from a standing hight of 6 feet in a enclosed area deliberately to stop wind then yeah that's ***** impressive. BUT WE DON"T KNOW ANYTHING ABOUT THE CONDITIONS. - snowjob24, on 05/19/2009, -1/+2i would like to know what the requirements for this record are, when i was in 5th grade me and some friends made a large paper airplane out of construction paper and launched on a windy day (from the ground) and it got carried off campus and was in the air longer than 30 seconds, am i entitled to this world record?
- sorepheet, on 05/19/2009, -0/+1I thought there was no such thing as a dumb questio... oh right, I just realized I'm on Digg, carry on theysayjump.
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