Re: The Problems with Indoor FF

From: leop12345 <leop_at_lyradev.com>
Date: Tue, 02 Jun 2009 14:30:21 -0000

Red Bull Paper Wings. Paper airplanes and a large proportion of
college students. A generous corporate sponsor and relatively
immediate gratification (ie. quick building for most participants).
BTW, the world record for such paper planes is over 25 seconds but
the physical training needed is quite regorous.


Compare this to the about 2,000 middle school Science Olympiad Wright
Stuff teams competing this year.


Leo, Bloomington IN

> I wonder how many people know the largest Free Flight contest-by far-in
> history just took place last month.and it was an indoor contest Actually,
> there were 617 qualifying contests in virtually every country on Earth,
> which culminated in the World Championships where the top 253 contestants
> competed head to head. The total number of registered contestants worldwide
> was 37,017. There were no ballons, boron or May '99 in use and the average
> age of contestants was in the mid-twenties
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> Any guesses?
Received on Tue Jun 02 2009 - 07:30:42 CEST