Here’s how to hold your own Paper Airplane Contest. Just follow these steps:
– Each competitor builds two paper airplanes using a regular sheet of paper,
8.5" x 11".
– One paper airplane should be designed to fly as far as possible. Build the other paper airplane to stay in the air as long as possible. For helpful information on paper airplane aerodynamics, read the section called, “What Makes Paper Airplanes Fly?” on our Paper Airplane Flight page.
– For the “distance” category, each person throws his or her paper airplane while someone else records distances in feet and inches. All distances must be measured from the starting line to the point where the plane first touches the ground or floor – not to the final resting place if it slides. Each competitor
has up to three chances to get his or her best distance.
– For the “time in air” category, each person throws his or her airplane while the monitor times the flights with an accurate stopwatch. Report the times in seconds and hundredths of a second. (Example: 2.45 seconds.) Each student has up to three chances to get his or her longest “time in air.”
– When all results are in, determine two winners: the competitor who makes the airplane that flies the farthest; and the competitor who makes the airplane that flies the longest time.
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