800 pound paper airplane

The plane, aptly named Arturo’s Desert Eagle, weighed 800 pounds and stretched 45 feet long with a 24-foot wingspan. The museum constructed it out of falcon board, a kind of corrugated cardboard, as part of its Giant Paper Airplane Project, the goal of which is to generate interest in aviation and engineering among young people.
Arturo designed and folded his plane for the competition, winning top honors in a fly-off sponsored by the Pima museum. But for last week’s flight, his design was adopted and constructed by Art Thompson, one of the designers of the B-2 stealth bomber