Sunday, June 29, 2008

A Childhood Play Comes Real

You all know one of the most common childhood plays and a kind of mischief is to make paper planes and make it fly over the classrooms and it was used to play pranks on others, but scientists are trying to make this prank into a useful one.

This idea was brought into picture by the Aeronautical engineers from the Tokyo university. They say that when heat resistant paper is treated with silicon , it can be used to make a plane!!!!!! This was said true by an astronaut at an international space station.

There was a test conducted by making a small prototype of the plane and it was run on a small hypersonic wind tunnel, the planes of this kind which were designed by the Japan Origami Airplane Association which survived temperature of 250 degrees and wind speeds to a mach 7 level which is seven times the speed of sound.

So nowadays there can be even new discoveries which can come even from mischievous pranks played by children. Hats off to the Japanese for having made such a wonderful discovery of planes which can even be made of paper.

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