I’m used to practice, practice, practice, then making an official attempt. This time it was attempt, attempt, attempt. I had practiced this one a few years ago when I made official attempts at it for over an hour, but I hadn’t practiced again since.

I knew the kind of plane I wanted to make: one I could throw accurately and far vs just far. I can make planes that will fly further, but they have so much variability in where they land my arm might fall off before I got one to land in the tiny bucket.

I set up 4 cameras with external batteries so they didn’t run out of juice and decided on 6 planes as a good number to get plenty of throws in while giving my arm time to rest between the throws without running myself to the ground by going to get them too often.

I had several close calls before finally landing a throw into the bucket from 15 meters out (49.21 feet).

Most of my throws were landing short of the bucket but I did have a few that sailed long. I think 15 meters was a good target to be ambitious but not have to spend multiple days going after it. The previous mark was 6 meters (which I believe was the minimum Guinness set when someone else created the record but never successfully attempted it).