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EOHD 2021: Ella Podmore’s Paper Plane Challenge

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  • Duration: 3 mins
  • Publication date: 12 Aug 2021
  • Part of series Engineering Open House Day

Abstract

For this year’s Engineering Open House Day, we put our engineering guests up to a very big challenge – how far can they fly their own paper aeroplane! With just 60 seconds on the clock and one sheet of A4 paper, they had to use their engineering skills to make a plane that would go the distance.

But can our 2020 WYE winner and McLaren engineer, Ella Podmore, go the distance? Watch to find out.

See more clips from our Engineering Open House Day Live show on our media hub: https://www.engineer-a-better-world.org/engineering-open-house-day/

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    Ella Podmore

    Ella Podmore is a Materials Engineer for luxury British supercar maker McLaren Automotive. She is responsible for all the material investigations in the business across all development phases of the company’s supercars; from concept drawings, all the way to customers in the field. Balancing her time between experiments and leading technical meetings, Ella created this department from the ground-up and plans to demonstrate the importance of materials in the automotive industry even further. As the leading STEM ambassador for McLaren, Ella helped launch the recent competition McLaren Automotive ran with BBC Blue Peter asking children to design their ‘supercar of the future’ and was one of Autocar’s Top 10 ‘Rising Star’ in 2019.
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