News Students of the university of Brunswick build the worlds largest paper plane

[Urwumpe]

After an earlier attempt to fly it failed because of a broken wing, this time the 18 m wing span paper plane managed to glide after being started from a platform indoors in an hangar (seems to be the hangar for the experimental aircraft at Brunswick airport)

http://www.spiegel.de/wissenschaft/...groesstes-papierflugzeug-fliegt-a-925091.html

EDIT: Correct me, if this was the wrong category for the thread...I thought it is still close enough to spaceflight.

 

[Kyle]

Awesome! Now, attach some helium balloons to it and send it up to 90,000 feet and drop it.

 

[RisingFury]

Now that is beautiful!

90 000 feet? No way. Thing wouldn't come home in one piece.

 

[N_Molson]

I'd be curious to know the mass of the thing... :hmm:

 

[Urwumpe]

I'd be curious to know the mass of the thing... :hmm:

24 kg according to the universities homepage:

http://presse.rz.tu-bs.de/presseinformationen/?p=5942

The name of it is "Carolo-Wilhelminchen" the diminutive of the latin name of the university "Carolo-Wilhelmina".

 

[N_Molson]

Wow, I was expecting something like that... So, with a lot of care, almost anyone can lift that 18-meters giant. Then you run down a hill, hold firm and you... takeoff :blink: :lol: