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The records for paper airplane flight are measured in the time aloft. These competitions usually pit "wider" paper airplanes against each other rather than the "dart" planes a lot of us made when we first began to construct them. It's kinda hard to figure out how "far" one of these world record planes "went" in the course of its flight into the record books. The planes are launched vertically, the idea in competition being to get as much altitude as possible and rely on the lift of the broad wings to make for a long, slow return glide. If you just want to cover absolute measured distance across a flat course like, say the way they measure the discus throw in the Olympics, the dart shape will get farther from the point of origin than a wide-winged glider because the wide plane will not hold a straight course very well. The wide wings would have to be absolutely identical to keep the plane on a linear course, and that's nigh on impossible with a paper airplane. By the way, the world record (measured in time aloft) plane can be seen by going to the sight hosted by - who else? - the world record holder himself, Ken Blackburn. There are a number of shapes shown and discussed on the site, and not just his wide-winged flyer. Got a couple of links for ya. Surf on over, even if just for the pics. It'll be worth your time.

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