Monday 26 March 2012

I Guess We Have All Made One Or Two,

paper aeroplanes and tried to see how far they would fly,


but how big can you make one? in January after the Pumar Air & Space Museum in Tucson, Ariz, launched a contest for six- to 14-year-olds to see who could fold a paper plane and get it to fly the furthest, it was won by 12-year-old Arturo Valderamo, Arturo's design having won the competition and spurred on by the kids' enthusiasm, engineers at the museum decided to see whether they could fly their own (slightly larger) aircraft made from Falconboard paper, Arturo's Desert Eagle was born, the 800-pound (363-kilograme) aircraft flew at 98 mph (158 kph) at an altitude of 2,703 feet (824 meters) after being towed into the sky by a helicopter and then released,


at 45-foot-long (14-meter-long) the paper aeroplane successfully flew across the desert skies of Arizona, executive director of the museum Yvonne Morris said, 'the arresting visual of the paper aeroplane in flight rekindled the childhood creativity in all of us,' Arturo's Desert Eagle will go on display at the museum later this spring, for his design to be taken this seriously I hope a collage some where will keep track of Arturo's skills and take him on as a student.

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