Short Bedtime Stories Presents: Ben Ventor's Dazzling Paper Airplane Invention

           Ben Ventor's Dazzling Paper Airplane Invention

     “Mine went the farthest,” said Fran, proud of her long and pointy paper airplane.

     “That’s because you made a fast plane,” explained Ben.  “I made a trick plane.  Mine isn’t meant to go far.”

     “So,” countered Fran, “mine still went farther.”

     Ben wasn’t real sure how to argue with this line of logic.  On the one hand, she was right.  Hers had flown farther.  On the other hand, there was no attempt on his part to fly his farther.

     “Ok Fran, but mine did more tricks,” answering Ben, thinking for sure the argument had been won in his favor.

     “Not if you count flying the farthest as a trick,” Ben’s dad said with Peter resting up on his shoulders.

     Ben was not a fan of his dad jumping over to the girl’s side.  Ben was still having a hard time understanding why his dad would often side with Fran or his mom.  In Ben’s book, his dad was a boy and should therefore always side with the boys.

     “That is a pretty good trick, Fran,” Ben said, finally giving in to letting her have this small victory in order to crush her dreams soon.  “I’ll have a plane that can do an even better trick tomorrow.”

     Ben did not like getting beat at what he considered to be one of his greatest talents: paper airplane folding. 

     The next day, the family arrived at the park just after dinner.  It was a beautiful night, and everyone was feeling full from his mom’s dinner. They were all finally ready to relax.

     “Airplanes?” Peter asked, putting a paper airplane in his ear. 

     Ben could not have been more excited.  He did not want to brag, but he knew he had the best paper airplane of all, today.

     “Let’s do a contest for best paper airplane trick,” Ben said.

     Surprisingly, the family listened, and everyone besides Peter folded paper for the next five minutes.  Ben’s mom was first to her feet.  She let loose her plane and it did a complete loop back into her hands. 

     “Not bad, Carol,” said Ben’s dad, now at his feet ready to fly his own plane.  Ben’s dad threw his plane hard, and it did a long corkscrew for about 20 feet.

     Fran was next.  Before she flew her plane, she looked directly at Ben and gave him an evil eye.  Without even looking, she threw her plane sideways from her body.  The plane did a complete arc over her head, and landed directly in her outstretched left hand.

     “Yeah, Fran,” her mom said, proud of her daughter.

     “Holy cow, Fran!” her dad said, enthusiastic.

     Fran stuck her tongue out at Ben and said, “beat that,” as she sat back down.

     Because Peter was already burying his piece of paper in the sand, Ben would be the final contestant.  Ben, held back his arm and let his plane fly.  The plane flew about one foot and did a little flip.

     “That’s it,” Fran said, very happy she had clearly won this contest.

     Ben smiled and ran up to his plane.  Just before he arrived at his plane, he jumped into the air and grabbed the bottom of it. 

The plane held his weight. 

The plane began to move slowly at first, then quickly.  The plane flew in whatever direction Ben pointed his feet.  He went up high, down low, far away, and all the way back to his family where he landed.

     “Ta da!” Ben said, excitedly.

     His family just sat staring with their mouths open at Ben.

    

How the strong plane is used today:  as long as you have a license, you probably use this as your main mode of transportation.  Kids use a child version that only flies 5 feet high(Parents were worried about them flying to high).

How much did the strong plane sell for:  754 million dollars

What did Ben buy with the money: An airport to land his real planes on.




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