How do you launch a paper airplane and fly it to Salzburg?

How do you launch a paper airplane and fly it to Salzburg?

The stage of the world championship on the launch of paper airplanes took place in Moscow. The winning pilots are already packing their bags.

On April 19, the national final of the world championship in launching paper airplanes – Red Bull Paper Wings– took place in the capital. According to its results the names of the strongest pilots who will represent our country at the international final in Austria in May became known.

What was evaluated?

RB Paper Wings is an international championship for launching paper airplanes, held in 2019 after a four-year break for the fifth time. The competition includes three disciplines:

• “Flight Range”, where the distance traveled by the paper airplane is evaluated;
• “Duration of flight” – the participant whose airplane will stay in the air longer than the others wins;
• “Aerobatics” – where the focus is on the originality of the design, flight trajectory, as well as the show built around the launch of the airplane.

Qualifiers for the first two disciplines took place inside university campuses.

Briefly about the rules and the selection stage

The participants assembled their paper airplanes strictly on the site, adhering to several conditions: the airplane must be made of one sheet of A4 paper weighing no more than 100 grams, the paper can be folded, but cannot be cut, torn or glued.

In total, students from 21 universities from six Russian cities took part in the selections: Moscow, St. Petersburg, Rostov-on-Don, Kazan, Yekaterinburg and Vladivostok. The winners of each university gathered in Moscow on April 19 to compete for the title of national champions and get the opportunity to go to the world final.

Pilots whose airplanes will fly to Salzburg

The champion in the range category was Yaroslav Kislov from St. Petersburg, whose plane covered a distance of 36.11 meters. “I almost did not train before the performance, – admitted Yaroslav, – but before the world final will have to prepare and study the technique of throwing to show the best result. My goal is 45 meters.

The author of the “longest flight” was Nikolay Rybasov, a student from Rostov-on-Don, who had already represented our country at the World Finals. His airplane stayed in the air for 10.97 seconds, which is 0.81 seconds better than his 2015 result.

On the same day, the winner of the Aerobatics discipline, which has been moved online since 2019, became known. He became a resident of Yekaterinburg Alexei Prolisko, whose video application gained the largest number of viewer and judge votes on the website of the project.

When is the final?

At the world final of the championship, which will be held on May 18 in the Austrian city of Salzburg, the guys will have to fight with the strongest pilots from 60 countries. The best will be named world champions and will also get the opportunity to spend an unforgettable weekend at one of the stages of the Red Bull Air Race World Championship.