Aero Space Hangar, SRM Institute, Chennai witnessed some high flying and competitive National Finals of Red Bull Paper Wings 2022 on April 9, 2022.
City Qualifier Winners across 9 cities - Bangalore, Bhubaneswar, Guwahati, Mumbai, Lucknow, Delhi, Hyderabad, Indore and Chennai competed with each other for three categories- Longest Distance, Longest Airtime and Aerobatics.
It was Aayush Mandawat from Delhi who won the Longest Distance category, while Deepak Chowdhary from Hyderabad won the Longest Airtime category.
On Friday afternoon, the Chennai qualifiers also took place where Aryan Vats and Gnanasambantham.K won the Longest Distance and Longest Airtime categories respectively and competed with the other city qualifiers winners in the National Finals the same evening.
All national winners of the three categories – Longest Distance, Longest Airtime and Aerobatics - will be invited to the World Final on May 13 and 14, 2022 in Austria in the iconic Hangar-7, where the world champions will be crowned.
There, the champions crowned in each category will win a flight experience with the renowned Flying Bulls, according to an official communication from the event organisors.