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How To Enter the Toss It! Speed Contest

How To Enter the Toss It! Speed Contest
Paper airplanes are fantastic: they're easy to make from simple materials. Just grab a sheet of paper and maybe scissors, tape, or a paperclip and you're ready to go.

There are as many great designs as there are paper airplane makers, and we love them all. Do you have a favorite design that flies farther, faster, or in exciting loops? What cool tips and tweaks work best for you? We want to know!

Enter the Toss It! Speed Contest, and show us how to make an awesome paper airplane!


Make a good Instructable that clearly shows how to make a paper airplane, and embed a video of your plane in flight. You can't just say it's the best, you have to show us!

Here's our own video to see what we mean.


Need more incentive?
great and easy to make paper airplane
Paper Glider
Walkalong Glider

Restrictions:
- The paper airplane must be human-propelled. No rubber bands for propellers or launchers. It's all about tossing a paper airplane.
- A video that shows the contest sheet (see below) and at least one throw of the airplane must be embedded into the Instructable.

Since this is a short contest we're letting the audience judge!
Vote for as few or as many as you like - it's up to you. We're not including duplicate votes, so please exercise good sportsmanship.

We'll judge based on the standings at noon PST on Thursday, March 20 2008 so everyone will have time to check out and vote on even the latest entries. Results will be posted shortly thereafter.

Prizes

Voting Prize: Air Instructables Flight Kit which includes decals, a pilot's license, and an Instructables robot t-shirt.

Voting Runners Up: An Instructables robot t-shirt.

Pageviews Prize: Air Instructables Flight Kit which includes decals, a pilot's license, and an Instructables robot t-shirt.

Random Prize: Air Instructables Flight Kit which includes decals, a "pilot's license", and an Instructables robot t-shirt.


How to Enter

- Make an a paper airplane Instructable. Use clear words and pictures so others can repeat your project.
- Embed a video of the plane in action.
- In the beginning of the video, show a printout of this PDF or this image.
- Videos can be no more than 30 seconds long.
- Add it to the Toss It! Speed Contest by 11:59pm PST, Sunday March 16, 2008.

Details

Only projects posted during the contest period are eligible. If you've already submitted a suitable Instructable, make another version with improvements and submit it to the contest! Post an improved version of someone else's Instructable with a link back to your source of inspiration!

We're looking for neat and creative projects, so let your imagination run wild.

Project Submission Start Date: February 28, 2008.
Project Submission Deadline: 11:59pm PST, Sunday March 16, 2008.
Audience Judging Deadline: noon PST, Thursday, March 20, 2008.

Fine Print:
You can only win one prize per contest, but may enter as many projects as you like and cross-post to other contests!

International entries are eligible - we're happy to ship prizes abroad.

If you're under 18, go ahead and submit your project - we'll just need your parents' OK if you win.

Open to enter: 2008-02-26 12:01 AM PST
Deadline for entries: 2008-03-16 11:59 PM PST

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Step 1Official Rules

1. All federal, state, and local taxes on prize are the sole responsibility of the winner. No purchases are necessary; void where prohibited by law.

2. Participants agree to abide by all decisions of Instructables, contest co-sponsors, and judges, which shall be final and binding with respect to all issues relating to this contest.

3. Prize is not transferable and no cash alternative or prize substitution is available. Instructables and contest co-sponsors reserve the right to substitute a similar prize of equal or greater value if the prize listed is unavailable for any reason. All potential winners are subject to verification at the discretion of Instructables and contest co-sponsors.

4. Winner agrees that prizes are being provided "as is", and Instructables and contest co-sponsors make no warranty, representation or guarantee regarding the prize, including but not limited to its quality, condition, merchantability or fitness for a particular purpose.

5. Instructables and contest co-sponsors are not responsible for problems including (but not limited to) damaged, incorrect, inaccurate, lost, delayed, or defective entries, or for injury or damage to any computer resulting from participation in this contest. Entries that have been tampered with or altered are void.

6. Instructables reserves the right to modify, cancel, postpone or end the contest at any time as necessary, at its sole discretion, or to disqualify any participant or winner, at its sole discretion, deemed to have cheated, destroyed, obstructed, or otherwise acted illegally or in bad faith in relation to this contest.

7. Instructables reserves the right, at its sole discretion, to disqualify any individual it finds, in its sole discretion, to be in violation of the Terms of Service; to be acting in violation of these Official Rules; to be acting in a unethical or disruptive manner, or with intent to annoy, abuse, threaten or harass any other person.

8. By submitting an entry and entering this contest, you represent and warrant that: you are over the age of 18, or entering with the knowledge and permission of your parent or guardian (subject to verification), and that the entry does not contain or incorporate the intellectual property and/or confidential information of any third party.

9. By submitting an entry and entering this contest, you hereby grant Instructables a perpetual, irrevocable, sublicenseable, worldwide, royalty free right to publish and distribute your entry for their promotional purposes.

10. Governing Law: All issues and questions concerning the construction, validity, interpretation and enforceability of the official rules, or the rights of entrants, shall be governed by and construed in accordance with, the substance laws of the State of California and any applicable laws and regulations of the United States.
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31 comments
May 14, 2009. 8:41 PMtroyqaz says:
Cool video!
Jan 8, 2009. 5:05 PMwalkalongaviation says:
So the rules state that the paper airplane must be "human-propelled" and that includes running behind it with a paddle like the walkalong glider?
Jan 8, 2009. 5:07 PMwalkalongaviation says:
Oppps... guess I'm a year late... Chucks!
Mar 17, 2008. 1:54 PMftking_83702 says:
I have had two people tell me they are having trouble voting. Has anyone else had a problem? Anyone have a suggestion? -Richard
Mar 17, 2008. 4:57 PMfungus amungus says:
I think that we've found the problem and taken care of it. Try it again and let me know.
Mar 17, 2008. 2:47 PMfungus amungus says:
I'd like to find out more about their problems. Do you know any details?
Mar 18, 2008. 8:04 AMftking_83702 says:
Thank you for getting on that. I had three friends/relatives tell me that they couldn't vote. One sent me the following: "When I click on the "vote now" button it will open a message that says I am not an authorized voter." (However, they are all registered Instructables users). Looks like from the later posting you fixed the issue. Again, thank you.
Mar 8, 2008. 9:14 PMFlyingMonkieBoy says:
Can u put more than one video on the Instructable?
Mar 4, 2008. 4:11 PMliketoblowthingsup48 says:
can you make a plane with more than one piece of paper? If so, can u use other things to support the plane (like foam board supports on the wings)?
Mar 5, 2008. 9:15 AMfungus amungus says:
More than one piece of paper is fine, but hold off on the foam board supports. We want to keep the materials as simple as possible.
Mar 5, 2008. 4:55 PMliketoblowthingsup48 says:
then I'l just use toothpicks...if thats all right with you?
Mar 1, 2008. 8:33 AMDanielk says:
Pilots license? As in a real Pilots license?
Mar 5, 2008. 9:15 AMfungus amungus says:
Yes, a pilot's license for flying a paper airplane. :)
Mar 5, 2008. 10:06 AMDanielk says:
Figured...(-_-) haha
Mar 2, 2008. 2:11 PMkid123 says:
its an INSTRUCTABLES pilots license. its probably got that robot logo and your name... thats it, so don't try to fly with it!
Mar 4, 2008. 9:07 PMminerug says:
im going to enter this...
Mar 1, 2008. 2:51 PMGorillazMiko says:
If it's a collaboration between two users, do they both get a prize? (I really need to know soon.)
Feb 29, 2008. 6:25 PMnepheron says:
hey..what if the instructable is about modifying a paper airplane? like making a paper airplane do something other than flying while in the air?
Feb 28, 2008. 6:15 PMlil jon168 says:
does it have to be the fastest or the longest in the air
Feb 28, 2008. 7:21 PMfungus amungus says:
It's a speed contest so the judging will be done by readers, but the better the flight the more convincing it will be.
Feb 29, 2008. 12:35 PMlil jon168 says:
thanks
Feb 29, 2008. 6:43 AMcheeto4493 says:
I may be an idiot (or had an idiot moment or browser problems) but I had the hardest time finding the rules for this contest. When I clicked on the contest, It only showed those entered, and a line that said "Contest is currently open, enter yours or vote now." I followed the "enter yours " link hoping to find the rules, but only got a message that said "You currently have no new eligible entries that have been published since the start of this contest." There was a box in the upper right hand corner under the header, but it was empty. I still don't know how I found this page.........
Feb 29, 2008. 4:01 AMLearndy says:
Form the intro - regarding the rubberband motor / material restriction: 'Paper airplanes are fantastic: they're easy to make from simple materials. Just grab a sheet of paper and maybe scissors, tape, or a paperclip and you're ready to go.'

I understand this as paper, tape, and paperclip at most with scissors as optional construction tools. Well, if you want to make it really fast you may add some scissors to the plane. But this will limit your plane to short distance flights.
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Feb 29, 2008. 12:16 AMwestfw says:
I predict that it's going to be pretty difficult to get a video of a paper airplane in flight that looks very good after compression. Anyone got any hints? Perhaps brightly colored paper would help? Should/could clause 9 of the official rules explicitly call out "non-exclusive" ?
Feb 28, 2008. 9:07 PMAlvinMaker says:
can they have rubberband motors or do they have to be made solely of paper.
Feb 28, 2008. 4:17 PMGorillazMiko says:
By the way, does the image have to be printed out FULL SIZE like a whole sheet of paper? Or can it just be like... how it is when you click on the image? Thanks.
Feb 28, 2008. 7:20 PMfungus amungus says:
One is for printing and showing, the other is for adding to a video.
Feb 28, 2008. 4:15 PMGorillazMiko says:
One of the awesomest contests yet. I will post some. Maybe more than 5. A couple. You'll see, you'll see!!!
Feb 28, 2008. 5:04 PMGjdj3 says:
Haha. This contest is going to be awesome. Everyone is going to post like ten airplanes. btw, good luck with your airplanes!
Feb 28, 2008. 5:00 PMdsman195276 says:
i am going to enter!
Feb 28, 2008. 3:58 PMGjdj3 says:
Sweet! I don't really plan on winning with my planes, but I've got a whole bunch from school!!

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