Takuo Toda world record holder for flying paper planes
How long can your paper plane fly for? In competitive paper airplane throwing, a 20-second flight is exceptional, 25 or better is world class and over 30 is the ultimate. Japanese paper plane master Takuo Toda 戸田 拓夫 holds the world record of 27.9 seconds he set in Fukuyama city, Hiroshima in April last year.
Toda, an engineer, is the head of the Japan Origami Airplane Association and is virtually unmatched in his ability to fold paper aircraft and makes his planes out of origami paper, one sheet of paper which he does not cut or paste. Toda said that the secret to throwing a paper airplane is to aim upward – not straight – so that it has time to gain altitude and slowly circle back to the ground.
More about Oriplane (planes made from origami) here
sky king origami
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March 4th, 2010 at 10:55 pm
thats pretty good, my longest flight was only 7 seconds