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The best paper airplane? A simple one
Early lesson recalled to win paper airplane contest
August 14, 1997
Web posted at: 10:51 p.m. EDT (0251 GMT)SYDNEY, Australia (CNN) -- Aeronautical engineering students at Sydney University honed their skills Wednesday in a contest to see who could build the best airplane.
There was a catch, however: they could use only paper, glue and string. And the proof would be in which plane flew the farthest.
Tristan Timmins and his team nearly won with a novel, twin-fuselaged version that soared almost 82 feet (25 meters).
But the winner was 21-year-old Dae-han Choi, who stole the show with a plane built from a single sheet of paper. He said the secret was in folding the paper into many small triangles, creating a long narrow craft.
He learned the trick, he said, when he was in primary school in Seoul.
So much for the importance of a high-priced education....
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