Part of the fun in building a paper airplane is seeing how high you can fly it, but a team of US Air force auxiliary volunteers have taken that challenge much more serious. Using a high altitude balloon the team launched a paper airplane at 96,563 ft, capturing a new world record. The plane was launched in Kankakee, Illinois and landed over 80 miles away in Rochester Indiana two hours later. The cadets designed the paper airplane, and even fitted it with a GPS tracking system, temperature sensors, barometric pressure sensors, flight computer, batteries, solar panel and a HD video camera. Even with all the add ons used the plane weighed in at 15 oz, and had a overall length of 30 inches.
Photos/Article from: The Register UK
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