OT. Record Paper Plane Flight

[Dean Hoffman]

At least some people are dong useful things with their time.

It flew almost 290 feet.

[hubops]

Achieving extreme distance while lacking any semblance of elegance .. John T.

[T]

I wish I had his design whilst I was in hi skool

[rbowman]

"They broke the record for farthest flight by a paper aircraft, sending a sheet of paper 88.318 meters, or almost 88.39 m."

Odd way to phrase it.

[micky]

The kid who used to mow my lawn is a big executive at Boeing now. I sent this to his mother, who is still my neighbor.

[Cindy Hamilton]

And wrong. 88.318 is almost 88.32.

Here's the text from gizmodo.com.au:

"Dillon Ruble and Garrett Jensen, both engineers at Boeing, broke a record in December that had only a little to do with their day jobs: They broke the record for farthest flight by a paper aircraft, sending a sheet of paper 88.318 meters, or almost 88.39 m."

And here's a report from jalopnik.com:

"Dillon Ruble and Garrett Jensen, both engineers at Boeing, broke a record in December that had only a little to do with their day jobs: They broke the record for farthest flight by a paper aircraft, sending a sheet of paper 88.318 meters, or almost 290 feet."

Looks like gizmodo.com.au wanted to expunge the American units, but completely failed at rounding.