“Paper Aircraft Released Into Space”的意思、由来-开放百科全书

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 {{convert|90000|ft|m|abbr=on}} - 17 miles up - setting a world record recognised by Guinness World Records^[1] 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{{'s}} Guinness World Record for the highest launch of a paper plane by releasing a substantial paper dart at {{convert|96563|ft|m|abbr=on}}.^[2]^[3]

On 24 June 2015, a club from Kesgrave High School in Suffolk, United Kingdom, achieved the world record for the highest altitude paper plane launch, reaching an altitude of 35,043 meters.^[4]

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.^[5] The aircraft's name was selected by a poll of the readers of The Register. was subsequently named Vulture 1^[6] (a reference to The Register{{'s}} own nickname "Vulture Central").^[7]

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 {{convert|100|km|mi|abbr=on}} above the earth's surface^[8]); 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^[9] in 2006,^[10] and at the behest of [https://web.archive.org/web/20091214100551/http://www.srcf.ucam.org/cuspaceflight/nova.php 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.^[11] 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,^[7] the payload type having been suggested by readers in 2006.^[11]

Future

References

1. ^Highest Altitude Paper Plane Launch
2. ^CAP Breaks Guinness World Record for Highest Paper Airplane Flight
3. ^[https://www.theregister.co.uk/2014/09/23/paris_record_broken// US team claims PARIS paper plane launch crown]
4. ^http://www.guinnessworldrecords.com/world-records/highest-altitude-paper-plane-launch/
5. ^{{cite web |url=https://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/07/30/reg_space_mission/ |title=El Reg to launch space paper plane |publisher=The Register |date=July 30, 2009 |accessdate=July 16, 2010}}
6. ^{{citation |url=http://forms.theregister.co.uk/poll/?id=26 |title=The El Reg space plane should be christened.... - Reg Poll Results |date=31 July 2009 |first=Lester |last=Haines |work=The Register |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090814193039/http://forms.theregister.co.uk/poll/?id=26 |archive-date=14 August 2009 }}
7. ^¹{{cite web |url=https://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/08/10/paris_update/ |title=El Reg space paper plane christened Vulture 1 |publisher=The Register |date=10 August 2009 |accessdate=July 16, 2010}}
8. ^{{cite web |url=http://www.fai.org/system/files/GS_2010.pdf |title=FAI Sporting Code: General Sections 2010 (PDF) |page=Glossary 3 (PDF page 52/53) |publisher=Fédération Aéronautique Internationale |date=January 1, 2010 |accessdate=July 16, 2010}}
9. ^{{cite web |url=http://www.srcf.ucam.org/~cuspaceflight/nova1launch.php |title=CU Spaceflight: Nova 1 launch report |publisher=Cambridge University Spaceflight |date=September 2006 |accessdate=July 16, 2010}}
10. ^{{cite web |url=https://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/09/18/nova_1/ |title=UK uni rocket payload test hits 105,600ft |publisher=The Register |date=September 18, 2006 |accessdate=July 16, 2010}}
11. ^¹{{cite web |url=https://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/09/18/payload_competition/ |title=El Reg to launch space payload |publisher=The Register |date=August 10, 2009 |accessdate=July 16, 2010}}
12. ^{{cite web |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-devon-11734084 |title=Paper plane launched into space captures Earth images |publisher=BBC News |date=November 11, 2010 |accessdate=November 15, 2010}}
13. ^{{cite web |url=https://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/07/07/vulture_2/ |title=El Reg to unleash rocket-powered spaceplane |publisher=The Register |date=July 7, 2011 |accessdate=August 23, 2011}}