AMMAN — The world’s largest paper plane
championship is back, a
Red Bull press release announced.
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Red Bull Paper Wings’ idea is simple and ingenious:
no fuel, 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.
National winners
in three categories are invited to the
Red Bull Paper Wings World Final in
Austria, where the 2022 world champions will be crowned. The application window
is open until March 20, 2022, with a chance to fast track directly to the World
Final for one aerobatics pilot who shares his/her entry for the most creative
flight on Instagram between February 24 and March 20.
The event recognizes three categories: distance and
airtime are judged at qualiflying events, and the two pilots with the longest
distance and longest airtime at each national final event advance to the world
final. The third category is aerobatics, which for the first time will
determine national finalists online on the social media platform
Instagram.
• Distance: to succeed, pilots must be able to
throw their planes farther than anyone else. At the last world final in 2019,
US’ 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 aerobatic tricks. In the 2019 final,
Ukraine’s
Kateryna Ahafonova scored the only perfect 10 with her creative paper plane
performance.
Pilots do not need to show up at a qualiflyer.
Instead, they get creative with their paper planes at home and share their
mastery on Instagram using the hashtag
#redbullpaperwings and tag @redbull and
their
#country when submitting their entries. The pilot with the most votes
from a national judging panel – which considers the criteria of social
engagement, flight performance and creativity of the performance and video –
will make it to the world final. And thanks to the new fast track opportunity,
there is a chance for one global pilot to accelerate that opportunity.
World final location
The Red Bull Paper Wings
World Final will be held at the iconic Hangar-7 in Salzburg, Austria. An
architectural landmark, the venue was conceived as a place where aviation comes
together with art and the culinary arts, hosting high-profile exhibitions,
events and programming.
The time to set a winning flight path is now with information available at
www.redbullpaperwings.com.
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