K. Rice

THIS EVENT, announced in Science 85 magazine, challenged airplane enthusiasts all over the world to build a better paper airplane. Sponsored by the Seattle Museum of Flight, Science 85 magazine, and the Smithsonian Institution's National Air and Space Museum, the contest offered a chance to have fun while participating in a worldwide contest of imagination and craftsmanship. It was hoped that the venture would get young people turned on to the adventure of aeronautics and would stimulate a continuing interest in aeroscience, as well. This second contest generated every bit as much interest as the First International Paper Airplane Contesst that was conducted by Scientific American magazine in 1967, with regional trials and other tie-ins springing up all over the world to spark enthusiasm for the international competition. Local museums, corporations, and schools of all levels took the opportunity to involve their communities in paper flight.