A flying gyroscope is a cylindrical item which when thrown like a football

Football (ball)

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, can fly great distances. X-Zylo is one of the biggest names in flying gyroscopes. The William Mark Corporation invented their flying gyroscope in 1993. It was invented by Mark Forti, a Baylor University

Baylor University

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 student, and refined within the aerospace

Aerospace

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 industry

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. In 1994, X-Zylo unofficially broke the existing world flying disc distance record when it was thrown 655 feet (199.6 meters).

X-zyLo has been featured on many television

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 programs such as Beyond 2000, Science Times, and Regis and Kathie Lee as well as in numerous national and international news publications including the "L.A.Times", "Success Magazine", "The Christian Science Monitor", and "N.Y.Times."

Flying gyroscopes can also be found by other makers. There are even directions found online

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 to make a flying gyroscope out of a sheet of paper

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