When he finally broke Blackburn's record, Toda told The Daily Telegraph that he "had thought that the world record was impossible to break, but the key to breaking the record is how high you fly it." This is the current Guinness World Record. The following year, Toda broke his own record in Fukuyama City, Hiroshima, Japan, on December 19, 2010: 29.2 seconds. In 2009, Tokuo Toda's Sky King flew for 27.9 seconds. "Along the way, I found ways to make the design fly a little better, and a little more consistently." - Ken BlackburnĮventually, Blackburn saw his record broken. Blackburn's record stood for more than a decade. His aptly named "World Record Airplane," based on a model he designed at age 13, was a glider-style aircraft that he heaved into the air at the Georgia Dome in Atlanta and watched for nearly 30 seconds as it made its way back to earth. On October 8, 1998, aeronautical engineer Ken Blackburn launched a paper airplane that stayed aloft for an incredible 27.6 seconds. Paper planes, an invention likely as old as paper, are models of engineering and they must account for the same dynamics as real planes, from drag force to stability to weight. We've all attempted to fold a paper airplane before, right? One we hoped would sail majestically through the air for a good while but just ended up nose-diving into the grass.
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