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On 28.09.2013, the world's largest paper plane took off from Braunschweig (Germany) for its first flight - and immediately made it into the Guinness World Records Book. The record still stands.
The world record was accompanied by a television team from the channel Pro Sieben for a documentary in the programme "Galileo" (broadcast on 27.10.2013).
For more than half a year, a team of students and scientific staff from the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering at Technische Universität Braunschweig planned, designed and built a spectacular large-scale project.
Carolo Wilheminchen started with a wingspan of 18 metres, an overall length of 5 metres and weighed about 24 kg.
Already in the first attempt it managed a distance of more than 18 metres: New world record!
In more than 1,200 hours of work - using only paper and glue - the world's largest flying paper aeroplane was created.
To set a new world record, it had to fly a horizontal distance of 15 metres to beat the old record of 13.97 m set by the University of Deft (NL).
The team used almost 500 tubes of all-purpose glue, 200 tubes of superglue and about 70 m² of paper to build "Carolo Wilhelminchen" using real aircraft construction methods.
They were among the pictures of 2012: accompanied by the TV channel Pro Sieben for the programme "Galileo" and with great media interest, the first attempt to break the record of the University of Delft (NL) took place already in October 2012.
Here you can see the TV report from 2012.
Only 5 weeks of construction time, more than 350 tubes of glue and a lot of paper...
The plane with a wingspan of 15 metres just missed the finish line. The goal for 2013 left no question unanswered...
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