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Aero Space Hangar, SRM Institute, Chennai witnessed some high flying and competitive National Finals of Red Bull Paper Wings 2022 on 8th April 2022. City Qualifier Winners across 9 cities – Bangalore, Bhubaneswar, Guwahati, Mumbai, Lucknow, Delhi, Hyderabad, Indore and Chennai competed with each other for three categories – Longest Distance, Longest Airtime and Aerobatics. It was Aayush Mandawat from Delhi who won the Longest Distance category, while Deepak Chowdhary from Hyderabad won the Longest Airtime category.
On Friday afternoon, the Chennai qualifiers also took place where Aryan Vats and Gnanasambantham K won the Longest Distance and Longest Airtime categories respectively and competed with the other city qualifiers winners in the National Finals the same evening.
All national winners of the three categories – Longest Distance, Longest Airtime and Aerobatics – will be invited to the World Final on 13th and 14th May 2022 in Austria in the iconic Hangar-7, where the world champions will be crowned. There, the champions crowned in each category will win a flight experience with the renowned Flying Bulls.
Red Bull Paper Wings invites students from around the globe to a global paper plane championship and the largest Red Bull student participatory event. With over 400 qualifiers across 60 countries, the National Finals took place after 3 years in India and created an even larger impact than ever before with a total participation of more than 2900. The idea is simple and ingenious at the same time: students must make a plain sheet of paper fly as far, as long or as artistically through the air as possible
Chennai Winners:
Longest Distance Category – Aryan Vats – 19.60 meters
Longest Airtime Category – Gnanasambantham K – 4.60 seconds
National Finals Winners:
Longest Distance Category – Aayush Mandawat (Delhi Qualifier Winner) – 38 meters
Longest Airtime Category – Deepak Chowdhary (Hyderabad Qualifier Winner) – 10.45 seconds
Aerobatics Category – Winner will be announced later
Forget cockpits and jet engines, all the equipment needed is an ordinary, commercial sheet of paper with a strong dose of exceptional folding abilities as well as creativity, imagination, and a grasp of basic aeronautic rules. Building a paper plane and letting it fly is an easy thing – you can do it everywhere with just one sheet of paper! It is the purest form of aerodynamics and therefore perfectly linked to the topic of flying and “Red Bull gives you wings”.
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