Japan Origami Airplane Association
Mr toda who is chairman of the japan origami airplane association performed his feat at a competition in hiroshima prefecture in april and it has now been confirmed by guinness world records as.
Japan origami airplane association. Toda was only a boy when he got involved with making origami airplanes. Researchers from the. He held the record for another 12 years until in 2010 takuo toda chairman of the japan origami airplanes association broke blackburn s record by keeping a plane aloft for 27 9 seconds.
He explained that this achievement was only the first step in his aim of launching a paper plane from space. Each plane is made from one sheet of paper. It now has about 2 000 members throughout japan.
No glue no scissor cuts. The paper takes on new value as a thing that can fly. The japan origami airplane association is folding up a paper airplane which will be able to survive the flight from the international space station to the earth s surface.
Takuo toda the head of the japan origami airplane association had nursed the idea of flying a shuttle shaped paper plane since nasa in 1977 launched its first space shuttle enterprise a craft. In 2009 takuo toda engineer and chairman of japan origami airplane association set a new guinness world record by having his paper airplane stay afloat for 27 9 seconds. Takuo toda holder of the time aloft paper airplane world record.
His interest kept growing and he established the origami airplane association in 1995. Takuo toda is the head of the japan origami airplane association he managed to achieve this world record by folding a space shuttle shaped paper plane.
