CNN reported that three engineers from The Boeing Company broke the world record for the farthest flight by paper airplane with a new distance of 289 feet, 9 inches, beating out the previous record of 252 feet, 7 inches. The success came after months of effort, including nearly 500 hours of studying origami and aerodynamics, and of testing multiple prototypes. The engineers’ design focused on speed and on minimizing drag.
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Cathay Pacific Flight from New York to Hong Kong to Set World Record
The Daily Mail (UK) reports that Cathay Pacific “will set a new world record for the longest commercial flight route after tweaking its New York to Hong Kong journey to avoid Russian airspace.” The now 17-hour flight will “become the first ever regular passenger flight to exceed 10,000 miles.”
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