collins is noun as the paper airplane guy. he s designed lots of different kinds of aircraft. he published his own book and has his own app out. he says he didn t have a good enough arm to go the dance. he outsourced it. the quarterback and the paper engineer share the record. stephen is a little miffed. the now 23-year-old mechanical engineer is not saying it s invalid but bringing in a proxy into the paper airplane throwing doesn t sit right with him. competitive paper airplane flying had always been in my mind. what can one person do with one piece of paper? using a ringer is problematic. i don t think that s the spirit of the competition. john collins didn t break any rules. in fact, someone called the decision to outsource the paper airplane is a smart way to win the record. what this comes down to is not