Tonight Pretensions was supposed to attend a fun talk on the physics of paper airplanes (and more to the point a demo) put on by Mr John Collins, the Paper Airplane Guy. She decided to skip due to heavy work commitments later this week. However, she did take a look at Mr Collin's website and his planes do look really cool.

Mr Collins is in Singapore as part of the Singapore Amazing Flying Machine Competition 2009 organised by the DSO and the Singapore Science Centre. This is a competition for schoolkids to build various flying machines ranging in difficulty from paper airplanes (primary schoolchildren) to unmanned aerial robots (University/polytechnic). His workshops are intended to teach the basics of aerodynamics and also how to build cool paper planes like the batplane or the boomerang.

P can't say much more as she didn't go but here's the promo video she was sent.