Boeing Engineers Break World Record for Longest Paper Airplane Flight Written 17 April 2023
Paper airplane | Credit: Akkana; Wikimedia Commons; CC BY-SA 3.0
CNN reported that three engineers from The Boeing Company broke the world record for the farthest flight by paper airplane with a new distance of 289 feet, 9 inches, beating out the previous record of 252 feet, 7 inches. The success came after months of effort, including nearly 500 hours of studying origami and aerodynamics, and of testing multiple prototypes. The engineers’ design focused on speed and on minimizing drag.
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