Never underestimate the power of folded paper...this year Red Bull's Paper Wings Championship was held in Salzburg, Austria...
Armed with just a single sheet of A4, British entrants, Nick Goodwin, George Miller and Matteo Sibilia reached the finals of the Red Bull Paper Wings Championships. In qualifying competitions across the globe more than 37, 000 students from 85 countries folded their bits of paper into the best planes possible.
"I was on my way to hand in an essay when I got stopped in the student's union, offered a drink and asked to throw a paper plane for a chance to win a trip to Austria," said George Miller, a student at Exeter University. Two months later, he was flown to Austria along with 205 other Paper Pilots from around the globe to battle it out in the plane flying final.
The venue was as extraordinary as the event itself - Red Bull's private aircraft space Hangar-7.
The building was opened in 2003 after four years painstaking work piecing together 1,753 individually crafted bits of glass.
The paper plane captains showcased their skills in three different disciplines.
First up was Aerobatics, the category marked on aviation tricks and overall creativity.
Pilots dived, danced and even stripped as they launched their paper creations into the air.
"I am so excited to have won. I've spent eight years training for this moment," said category winner Takeshige Kishiua from Japan. Kishua, a dedicated member of the Japanese Origami Paper Planes Association, clearly took things a little more seriously than Team GB.
Nick Goodwin, the British long-distance candidate said he "only entered for a laugh".
But he added that he "had the most incredible weekend, meeting and swapping plane folding tips with amazing people from all around the world" - all without having to lay a finger on his student loan.
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