I did that contest at Oshkosh about twenty years ago. A very brilliant
aeronautical engineer (who is the owner of Aero-Trim, Norm Smith) got the
award for best distance for wadding up the paper into a spitball and
launching it at a 45d for best distance and taking the same spitball and
launching it at near 90d for best time. Try it. Spitballs at low mach are
very efficient.

{;-)

Jim



I'm starting from scratch. For example, what about a contest for the
construction of paper airplanes? Winners (multiple metrics including
longest duration and greatest distance) get a flight. Would parents go
along (in either sense of the word {8^)?