Museum Seeking World Record For Largest Paper Plane

A Massachusetts museum is tossing a 64-foot-long paper airplane into the air to break a Guinness World Record. The Revolving Museum in Fitchburg announced the paper plane, created under the supervision of “Project Soar” leader and local artist Jerry Beck, was to be lifted by a crane Tuesday at the Fitchburg Municipal Airport. A Guinness World Records adjudicator was to be on hand to verify whether the 1,500-pound plane beats the previous record for a paper airplane, which was created by students and faculty at Germany’s Braunschweig Institute of Technology in 2013. Beck said the project has been four years in the making and involved contributions from more than 4,500 people.