Engineer's Week is this week, and part of the celebration were some competitions. There were the calculator races, the slide rule competition, and the paper airplane competition, which I signed up for.
The night before I did a little research and made some test airplanes.
I figured, if nothing else, at least the architect's plane would look good!
I finally decided to fly the pink zigzag plane. It did the best in the trial runs.
See that guy with the sweet 'stache? That's Dan LeBlanc, he's in charge of the Engineers and also ran the event.
See all the heads popping up in the cubes to see what was going on?
This is my friend Von taking her turn.
Her plane did pretty well. They measured how far each of three tosses went, then added them together for your final score.
All of the spectators and contestants.
Here's LeBlanc again with Engineer Patrick. I've told some of you about my 'experienced' with Patrick. He's a...character. He signed up for the competition but hadn't made a plane (he thought we would be making them there), so he took the 24x36 drawing print-out that he happened to be carrying and transformed it into a plane on the spot. 'Design on the fly', if you will!
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