by The world record for the furthest flight by paper plane has been broken by three aerospace engineers with a paper aircraft that flew a grand total of 88 metres.
They beat the previous record of 77 metres achieved on April 2022 by a trio in South Korea.
Prior to that, the record had not been broken in over a decade.
“It really put things on the map and it’s a really proud moment for family and friends,” said Dillon Ruble, a systems engineer at Boeing and now paper plane record holder, in a release.
“It’s a good tie-in to aerospace and thinking along the lines of designing and creating prototypes.”
Ruble worked alongside Garrett Jensen, a strength engineer also with Boeing, and aerospace engineer Nathaniel Erickson. The trio are recent graduates who studied aerospace engineering and mechanical engineering at Missouri University of Science and Technology.
The feat required months of effort, as the team put in nearly 500 hours of studying origami and aerodynamics to create and test multiple prototypes.
The engineers put their final design to the test on December 2, 2022, in Crown Point, Indiana, where the record was achieved on Ruble’s third throw.
