Held in Hangar-7 at Salzburg Airport, the occasion is the official paper airplane world championships and consists of three classes: longest distance, longest airtime and aerobatics.
The gap and airtime pilots constructed their planes by folding a single, standardized sheet of A4 paper supplied by organizers. The principles dictate that there may be no different modifications similar to slicing, tearing, gluing or stapling.
For the aerobatics occasion, nevertheless, a number of forms of paper planes are permitted with no restrictions on measurement, paper high quality or building method.
Lazar Krstić — winner of the space class — avenged his second-place end in 2019. Since then, he has been decided to take victory, spending the intervening three years redesigning his airplane, refining his throwing method, and even including over 20 kilos of muscle to his physique for further energy and energy. Yicheng Solar of Nice Britain completed second with a throw of 187.4 ft.
Rana Muhammad Usman Saeed from Pakistan received the airtime occasion with a flight of 14.86 seconds, almost two seconds longer than second-placed Esteban Neira of Chile.
The aerobatics class was assessed extra subjectively by a judging panel which awarded factors primarily based on creativity, total flight efficiency and technical proficiency.
South Korea’s Lee Seunghoon was victorious on this self-discipline because of his minute-long routine that includes magician-like choreography and gravity-defying planes that twisted and twirled mid-air.
After his profitable efficiency, Lee proposed to his girlfriend — with a paper airplane, in fact.
