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Written by Rachael Finucane   
Wednesday, 01 April 2009

TWO UL students are in with a chance to go to the Paper Plane World Championships after they came out tops in the Red Bull Paper Wings competition held at the Plassey campus this Monday.
Two first year Aeronautical Engineering students—Paul Carrolan and James Geraghty—got the best results in air-time and distance/aerobatics respectively in the paper-plane throwing event and will now go to the national finals in Dublin on April 2.
A spokeswoman for Red Bull said that “with just a sheet of paper, plenty of ideas, strong or skilful upper arms and a bit of creativity you can go down in sporting history. The activity once practised in Ancient China has come a long way and in April paper airplane enthusiasts from all around the globe will meet again to fight it out in this unique event for the title of Red Bull Paper Wings world champion”.
Winners of regional heats around Ireland will go on to battle it out at the World Final in Hangar-7 in Salzburg, Austria on April 24 and 25.
The 2005/6 season saw over 10,000 competitors from 50 countries (including Ireland) take part in 260 qualification rounds across the world with the aim of soaring into the main event where winners were crowned in several categories.
For more information, see www.redbullpaperwings.com.

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