Bah. We'll get it back :)
Mind you I had to read that headline twice. I thought at first it said PARIS was beaten by 96,000 ft. That would have been very impressive :)
US team claims PARIS paper plane launch crown
A US team has announced it's broken El Reg's Guinness World Record for the highest launch of a paper plane by releasing a substantial paper dart at 96,563ft (29,430m). A group of cadets from Fox Valley Composite Squadron of the Illinois Wing, Civil Air Patrol, sent their vehicle aloft on 13 September from Kankakee, Illinois, …
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Tuesday 23rd September 2014 11:03 GMT Michael Hawkes
Re: Are you really, really sure you want to meddle with the US Army?
It's the Civil Air Patrol, not the Army. They're affiliated with the Air Force, but they're civilians. They're more military-like than Scouts, but a bit less military than Junior ROTC.
Civil Air Patrol at Wikipedia.
The Child Catcher because the cadets are children.
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Tuesday 23rd September 2014 12:47 GMT Stoneshop
Re: Have any contacts at SpaceX?
Now I'm wondering, if you were to throw a model plane out of the ISS window, so to speak, would it survive descent though the atmosphere? Initially it'll have a speed of about 8km/s, so throwing it backwards, forwards or just letting it drop won't make a noticeable difference. But at some point it'll start encountering drag, and start dissipating its kinetic energy (64000kJ for every kg the craft weighs) as heat. The question is, at what rate will it decelerate, and, from that, can it shed the resulting heat fast enough to prevent its Playmonaut pilot getting roasted? What model shape (and material) would be best suited? Would it need Additional Stuff to help keep the craft cool?
And, given the land/water area ratio, the project will need more than just a car to retrieve the Playmonaut at the end of his journey, lest he join #1 in his watery grave
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Wednesday 24th September 2014 07:51 GMT Stoneshop
Re: Have any contacts at SpaceX?
An ever increasing rate
No.
At some point it will stop decelerating, ultimately when its speed reaches zero (which will happen when its height reaches zero), but also at some point earlier when drag and gravitational pull reach equilibrium. So the increase of deceleration will have stopped before that and turned into a decrease of rate of deceleration, and ditto the rate of increase of increase.
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Tuesday 23rd September 2014 23:06 GMT John Brown (no body)
Re: Cheating YANK BASTARDS
"How the hell is that ORANGE thing"
I thought the was colour a nice homage to the one, the only, the original PARIS!!!
And don't forget, no matter how many times the PARIS record is beaten, PARIS was still the first!
Does anyone remember the second man on the moon? (Yeah, it was Buzz, but Neil was first! What about the 3rd, 4th 5th or 6th men on the moon)
Who remembers the second expedition to conquer Everest?
Who remembers the second flight across the Atlantic?
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Monday 29th September 2014 20:00 GMT Richard Altmann
Re: I've been tempted to do my own PARIS project
@Khaptain:Shouting "Das Schwein!! Das Schwein!!" and jumping up and down without end,
bystanders had to finally drag me to the lawn and dose me with a monster reefer to calm me down.
First and only time ever, that i lost the plot. The pig must have left the galaxy by now. Thanks for reminding me.
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