Remember when you were younger and your parents told you not to play with your food? Nevertheless, this rule didn’t apply for the paper airplane competition held at the Los Angeles based company, Wondros. The company’s founder Jesse Dylan told employees they had a competition for who could make the best paper airplane out of recycled lunch wrappers from their “Falafel Fridays.”
An All Out Airplane Creation
For anyone who has made airplanes in elementary school during recess, you know how difficult it can be to make just the perfect design for a nice “liftoff.” Given the material used, you’d think a small plane would be the standard creation. However, two employees in the editorial department decided to go all out, and were the winners of the competition with this massive design.
A Whole Lot Of Falafel
Looking at the design, it’s pretty incredible how the duo was able to construct an almost perfect replication of a commercial style airplane. When you compare the size of the plane to the people sending it off and catching it for landing, we can’t help but wonder… how much falafel was eaten in the process?
An Innovative Use Of Trash
Despite the laughable amount of falafel needed to have created this design, we do have to commend the company for their creative take on recycling the paper. With global warming being an increasing ongoing threat, it’s important to think of innovative ways to put our waste to use. This paper airplane is a fun, prime example.
Competition In The Paper Airplane World
Despite being an extremely impressive paper aircraft, the largest paper airplane to date isn’t this Falafel-fueled creation, but an 800 pound (363 kg), 45 foot plane created by Arturo Valdenegro of Tucson. This design also happened to be a part of a contest. Engineers helped to create the final product for launch over the Arizona desert in 2012. Good thing they chose a dry climate– we can’t even begin to imagine how devastating that drenched disaster would be in the rain.
Although the Wondros design was nowhere close to that grand a scale, we have to give credit to the fact editors created this aircraft. Maybe it’s time for a career change!
Photos: Pixabay and Unsplash, cover photo: YouTube DS Channel