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The PARIS (Paper Aircraft Released Into Space) project was a privately organised endeavour undertaken by various staff members of the information technology web site ''The Register'' to design, build, test, and launch a lightweight aerospace vehicle, constructed mostly of paper and similar structural materials, into the mid-stratosphere and recover it intact. On 28 October 2010, the aircraft was successfully launched at - 17 miles up - setting a world record recognised by Guinness World Records〔(Highest Altitude Paper Plane Launch )〕 at a location about 120 miles west of Madrid, Spain, by a team of British space enthusiasts. On 13 September 2014, a group of Civil Air Patrol cadets from Fox Valley Composite Squadron of the Illinois Wing, announced that it had broken ''El Reg'' Guinness World Record for the highest launch of a paper plane by releasing a substantial paper dart at .〔(CAP Breaks Guinness World Record for Highest Paper Airplane Flight )〕〔(US team claims PARIS paper plane launch crown )〕 ==Project== Staffers at ''The Register'', inspired by the CU Spaceflight ''Nova 1'' project, formally announced their intention to initiate a project of their own on 30 July 2009.〔 〕 The aircraft's name was selected by a poll of the readers of ''The Register''. was subsequently named ''Vulture 1'' (a reference to ''The Register'' own nickname "Vulture Central").〔 〕 The use of the word "space" in the project's name refers to "near space," not "outer space", since it was not planned for the vehicle to ascend to an altitude above the Kármán line (the boundary of outer space, defined by the Fédération Aéronautique Internationale as above the earth's surface〔 〕); it is nevertheless a project that is closely related to the concept of private spaceflight. Lester Haines, special projects editor ("Iberian Bureau") at ''The Register'', as part of his reporting on CU Spaceflight's ''Nova 1'' mission〔 〕 in 2006,〔 〕 and at the behest of (Nova ) team member Carl Morland, mused that "''El Reg'' might like to contribute something" as a payload to a future high-altitude balloon project, and invited the online magazine's readership to make suggestions as to what kind of payload package should be designed and built.〔 〕 After languishing for a few years in limbo, the balloon payload project was resurrected in July, 2009 and called ''PARIS'', as a backronym from ''Paper Aircraft Released Into Space'' after Paris Hilton〔 , the payload type having been suggested by readers in 2006.〔 The paper plane was successfully launched on 28 October 2010.〔 〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Paper Aircraft Released Into Space」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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