This Saturday kids can compete in a free paper-airplane folding and flying contest at the Pima Air & Space Museum, at 6000 E. Valencia Road, but they need to pre-register by noon Friday.
Kids ages 6 through 14 can sign up for the competition at www.GreatPaperAirplane.org
Some walk-in registrants will be allowed in, if space is available, until 11 a.m. the day of the event.
The contestant and up to four members of their family get free admission to the museum. Contestants can create their airplanes in advance, but materials will be available at the museum to build planes too.
Ken Blackburn, who holds the Guinness World Record for the longest paper airplane flight (27.6 seconds), will be at the museum before the competition, from 10 to 11 a.m., offering folding and flying help. Go to www.paperplane.org to check out some of his tips.
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The young flier whose paper plane flies the furthest in the Great Paper Airplane Fly Off at the museum Saturday will win a spot as guest engineer on a team challenging the Guinness Book of World Record’s largest paper airplane honors, according to a press release from the museum.
The team is building a massive paper airplane that will bear the youth guest engineer’s name on the tail or nose. The idea is to fly the plane in February from a height of 5,000 feet over the Arizona desert. The flight will be filmed; details of the event are still being determined.
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