The world’s largest paper plane championship is back.
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In Red Bull Paper Wings, the idea is simple and ingenious for there is no fuel and no engines.
Participants must simply make a plain sheet of A4 paper fly as far, as long or as artistically through the air as possible.
Coming from more than 60 countries, national winners in three categories will be invited to the Red Bull Paper
Wings World Final in Austria, where the 2022 world champions will be crowned.
The event recognises three categories, namely distance, airtime and aerobatics.
• Distance: to succeed, pilots must be able to throw their planes farther than anyone else. At the last World Final in 2019, the USA’s Jake Hardy topped the field with 56.61m.
• Airtime: Pilots must fold their planes for just the right aerodynamics to achieve the longest flight time. In 2019, Australia’s Cameron Clark snatched victory with 13.33 seconds.
• Aerobatics: This category is all about creative performances. In the 2019 finale, Ukraine’s Kateryna Ahafonova scored the only perfect 10 with her creative paper plane performance.
Pilots don’t need to show up at a qualifier. Instead, they’ll get creative with their paper planes at home and share their mastery on TikTok. Details, including how to enter, are available at the event website, www.redbullpaperwings.com.
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