Flying a paper plane is no longer child’s play. On May 13 and 14, in Austria’s iconic Hangar-7 housing historic aircrafts, helicopters and Formula One racing cars in Salzburg, paper planes will fly left and right, and even do some acrobatics as the world’s largest paper plane flying competition gets underway. From among 2,900 participants in India, Delhi’s Aayush Mandawat and Hyderabad’s Deepak Chowdhury, both students, will lock horns with paper plane pilots around the world.
Back at the Aero Space Hangar that stands hidden behind the Automobile Engineering department in SRM University, Kattankulathur, strobe lights kept in tune with groovy music, as 20-somethings steadily shot off paper planes one after the other, in a practice session.
