“Depending on what you want to achieve, it can change the overall design process,” he says, adding that the type of paper ...

The Guinness paper plane record for duration of flight is currently 29.2 seconds. “The design objectives for an air-time record would be vastly different from the low-drag version we built for ...

putting in 400 to 500 hours of creating different prototypes to try to design a plane that could fly higher and longer. "For the Guinness World Records, we ended up going with A4-sized paper ...

Paper plane physics The team had decided their best chance at beating the world record would be with an airplane design that focused on speed and minimized drag, so that the plane could fly a far ...