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IT'S A BIRD! IT'S A PLANE! IT'S.........!

DID YOU KNOW?

--Blimps and balloons float in the air for the same reason that corks float in water. The helium in a balloon weighs less than air, just like cork weighs less than water.

--The world's largest paper airplane on record had a wing span of 45 feet 10 inches. Students and faculty at Delft University of Technology in the Netherlands built it, and on May 15, 1995, they flew it 114 feet indoors.

--The earliest known flying devices were kites made from paper over 2,000 years ago.

--Air gets colder as you go higher. On a summer day it is about 40 degrees below zero at 32,000 feet(about six miles above ground), where most airliners fly.

--The record for the longest distance flown by a paper airplane indoors is 193 feet(more than two times the length of a basketball court). It was thrown by Tony Feltch on May 21, 1985.

--Gliders, just like paper airplanes, don't have any engines. Even so, gliders have traveled over 1,000 miles in one flight and have reached altitudes of more than eight miles above Earth.

--If you want to make your head spin think about this! The record for consecutive loops performed by a real airplane is 2,368. It was set in 1986 by David Childs in a Belanca Decathlon, a propellar-driven aerobatic airplane.