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Victor pursued his scientific interests boldly, but tried not to go overboard.
He built a paper airplane from three sheets of paper. The first sheet was the fuselage. The second and third sheets were wing extensions. The finished plane was 27 inches wide.
Victor built the plane on his lunch break. But he did not launch it in the classroom. He placed it in his locker for the remainder of the school day.
Finally, the school day ended. Time for a test flight.
Victor punched a hole in the front of the plane, where the cockpit would be if the plane was real. He threaded a string through the hole, and tied the string to the rear fender of his bicycle. Then he took off.
Victor was an experienced rider, and it did not take long for him to reach full speed. He kept pedaling until the airplane was roughly two stories off the ground. Then he cut the string.
The plane soared upward for a second or two, then leveled off. It flew perfectly level for about six seconds, then it started to dive. That was the pattern the plane followed for he rest of the flight. It descended, but it descended smoothly and gracefully.
That grace did not last long.
Victor's airplane reached the end of its flight when it hit a mailbox. That was the bad news.
The good news was that the plane was intact. And it covered more ground than it could ever cover in a classroom.
Tomorrow, Victor would try the plane on a bike path through the forest where there were no trees or mailboxes. And he would use a longer string and pedal faster.
Maybe one day Victor could make a paper airplane that would soar 100 feet into the air.
But not today. Victor had to go home, finish his homework and eat dinner.
The sooner summer vacation arrived, the better.
The End.