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It's Official - Jackie Chan World Guinness Record Holder

Today Jackie was officially awarded two world Guiness Records - "Most Stunts Performed by a Living Actor" and "Most Credits in One Movie". Jackie was also celebrating the official 'soft' opening of the Jackie Chan Film Gallery in Shanghai. More photos to follow in a separate post.

Jackie's reaction on Weibo:

今天我被授予两项吉尼斯世界纪录，其中我尤其对“表演特技最多的演员”这一项感到受之无愧，今天回头看过去那么多次拼命，觉得很值得，因为它们都被纪录了下来，我可以很骄傲的跟子孙说，跟观众说，这是成龙，这是Jackie Chan！这就是永远！

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I was awarded two Guinness Book of World Records, one of which is "Most Stunts Performed By A Living Actor." I felt I particularly deserved it today. As I look back to the past, so many times to do my utmost, I think it was very worthwhile, because they are records of the past. I can be very proud with them for posterity, saying with the audience that "This is Jackie Chan, Jackie Chan! This is forever!!"

SOURCE: WEIBO.COM

Paper Plane from Space?

Ok so this is not Jackie this morning but it is Asian so I guess it counts! LOL - MY blog MY rules!

Anyway I have to admit that one hand I must admire the tenacity but on the other hand I think WHY? I also have to ask IF they launch a paper plane from the space station how on earth will they track it? Do they have sensors small and light enough not to affect the weight/balance/aerodynamics of the plane? Ok LOL I did some more reading on this - apparently 'tracking' involves writing "This plane flew from the International Space Station. Please return the plane to Japan Origami Plane Association." on it!

Japanese man sets record for paper plane flight
A Japanese engineer has set the world record for the longest flight for a paper airplane, keeping his design aloft for 27.9 seconds.

After his record flight, Takuo Toda said that his achievement was merely the next step in his ambition of launching a paper plane from space.

Mr Toda, who is chairman of the Japan Origami Airplane Association, performed his feat at a competition in Hiroshima Prefecture in April and it has now been confirmed by Guinness World Records as the longest ever flight by a paper plane.

"I had thought that the world record was impossible to break, but the key to breaking the record is how high you fly it," Mr Toda told The Daily Telegraph.

Made of a single sheet of folded paper with no cuts, his design measured 10 cm from tip to tail. He plans to use the same shape to try to break his own record at another event for paper plane enthusiasts in September.

His ultimate aim, however, remains having one of his aircraft launched from the space shuttle.

"Thirty years ago, I saw a space shuttle - with a similar shape to a paper airplane - returning to Earth," said Mr Toda, who traces his hobby back to the two years he spent convalescing after a climbing accident while at university. He claims to have had made a paper plane with an almost identical triangular configuration three or four years before NASA unveiled its shuttle.

"I thought it would be possible for a paper aircraft to do the same thing, but back then no-one would listen seriously to my ideas," he said.

Founder of the association in 1980, he has lobbied scientists and professors to take his proposal seriously and was finally rewarded last year when the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency announced that it would fund a three-year, 90 million yen (£617,000) study into the feasibility of launching paper darts from the International Space Station and, hopefully, recovering them when they return to Earth about a week later.

"If it is proven that a paper plane can re-enter the Earth's atmosphere and glide back down safely then the scientific community could gain very valuable data about aerodynamics," said Mr Toda says. "That knowledge could even lead to improvements in the design of spacecraft in the future as it would prove that even ultra-light materials are able to withstand the demands of the upper atmosphere."

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