Quarterback smashes paper plane record
Quarterback smashes paper plane record, Former American football star shatters world paper aeroplane record, A former American football player has thrown a paper plane a world record distance of 226 feet. A paper airplane traveled 226 feet, 12 inches inside a hangar at McClellan Air Force Base outside of Sacramento, Calif. "CBS This Morning" co-host Erica Hill reports on the record-breaking paper airplane throw. A former American football quarterback put his skills to a very different use as he set a new world record for throwing a paper aeroplane. On tape: Paper airplane throw breaks world record.
Joe Ayoob threw the dart an amazing 226 feet 10 inches in an aircraft hanger at McClellan Air Force base in Sacramento, Calidornia.
The 27-year-old shattered the previous record by over 20 feet with a perfect throw which saw the plane climb, dive and then climb again before almost running out of room in the vast space.
"There's a lot of finesse involved. It's kind of blending power, balance, and control while you're throwing this fragile, little paper airplane."
Ayoob - a former college star in American football who is one of the few men ever to throw, run in and catch a touchdown pass in the same game - hadn't actually built the plane himself. It was designed by John Collins, a TV producer and part-time aerodynamicist who spent years studying origami in an attempt to create the perfect paper aeroplane.
And Collins believes that Ayoob's record is just the start for his brainchild - which he claims is currently only limited by finding the right indoor space.
"There's way more potential with this design," he said. "I don't know how far it can go. It might be capable of 300 feet. We still haven't been in a space big enough to truly test it.
"Now we've got the world record. If someone wants to drag us out to a great big venue and let us (try to improve on the record), we'd probably go for it."
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