Paper planes aloft at GBES
Ken Blackburn (above left) took time out of his busy schedule to stop by Lori Phillips' first grade class to share some tricks of the trade with the Gulf Breeze Elementary School (GBES) students. Blackburn is as an aeronautical engineer at Eglin Air Force Base, currently holds a paper airplane world record and has co-authored four paper plane books. Blackburn is currently listed in the Guinness Book of World Records for most time aloft from a paper airplane, a record he originally set in 1983 with 16.89 seconds of airtime. He topped his own record four more times with the current bar set at 27.6 seconds in 1998. He reset the record eight years ago by tossing his paper plane toward the top of the 290-foot ceiling of the Georgia Dome in Atlanta. For more information visit www.paperplane.org.

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