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We don't know how far they'll go, but it will be many miles. At one atmosphere pressure they can achieve several feet of travel across the ground for every foot they lose in altitude though we don't know how they'll perform in thin air. They are optimised for fast flight though, to maximise the chances of a long distance covered.
The register project was really lovely, and it would have been nice for us if we could have got ours off before them, but we weren't able to. It was substantially different in that they launched one large plane instead of a couple of hundred paper planes, and they launched from a lower altitude. Certainly we would expect to cover a lot more distance than PARIS. Which isn't a criticism of that project- as I say it was really great.
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crab_bloke), Mon 24 Jan 2011, 16:54,
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