Paper Aeroplanes in Space

[Gben 20]

I'm scanning the news while watching the cricket. Saw this article on a new record for a paper airplane staying in the air by this Japanese guy below. I've copied an interesting portion of the story below. Funny. Weird. Interesting.

 

 

...Toda has established himself as the world's foremost folder of paper planes, an obsession that now has him setting his sights on the final frontier. Last year he and fellow enthusiast Shinji Suzuki, an aeronautical engineer and professor at Tokyo University, announced plans to have about 100 of their paper planes launched by a Japanese astronaut on board the international space station, 250 miles above Earth.The 30cm planes, made from heat-resistant paper treated with silicon, survived temperatures of 250C and wind speeds of mach 7 ‑ seven times the speed of sound ‑ during testing. But the attempt was postponed after the pair acknowledged it would be all but impossible to track them during their week-long journey to Earth, assuming any of them survived the searing descent.

 

Toda, who received funding for the project from Jaxa, Japan's space agency, is determined not to give up and hopes to get backing from China or Russia for another attempt...

Full article here.

[Luk3us 63]

lol, so that is how Japan is going to wipe out North Korean/China.. Paper bombers!

[Doctor Destiny 42]

loljapan

[comander starlin 6]

now who will suspect a paper plane of mass destruction! lol

[Inferno 22]

these people really, really have nothing to do

[PurpleGaga27 40]

If this isn't really unique on what it seems, I wouldn't be reading about this.

 

Sorry, but I think this new odd method does not work.

[Mighty BOB! 5]

Hah, that's cool. What kid would ever say no to that? He's just trying to have the fun we all would want to as kids.