Residents of a Massachusetts city are hoping to set a world record for the largest paper airplane.
The Revolving Museum of Fitchburg revealed a 64-foot-long plane at the Fitchburg Municipal Airport on Tuesday. There was no plan to fly the nearly 1-ton contraption.
Fitchburg artist Jerry Beck told the Sentinel & Enterprise he wanted to break the world record for the largest paper airplane to take flight but the hangar it was built in was too small to accommodate a wide enough wingspan to support the glue-shellacked plane.
The plane project is meant to spotlight Fitchburg's history as a major paper producer.
A construction crane held the plane aloft.
Two people measured the plane at 64 feet and 6 inches long, which Beck says makes it is the largest of its kind. He's asking Guinness World Records to add a new category.
Guinness World Records says the largest paper aircraft was built by students and employees at the Braunschweig Institute of Technology in Braunschweig, Germany in 2013.
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It takes several weeks for Guinness World Records to review record attempts.
