Motor Gliders win the Green Flight Challenge

[Tim Taylor]

http://www.ens-newswire.com/ens/oct2011/2011-10-04-01.html


http://www.flickr.com/photos/nasahqphoto/sets/72157627640803245/detail/

[jim wynhoff]

On Oct 5, 8:46*am, Tim Taylor > wrote:
> http://www.ens-newswire.com/ens/oct2011/2011-10-04-01.html
>
> http://www.flickr.com/photos/nasahqphoto/sets/72157627640803245/detail/

It's probably a good thing they didn't base the competition at Ely in
July, or it would have become a soaring contest.

[Frank Whiteley]

On Oct 5, 2:58*pm, jim wynhoff > wrote:
> On Oct 5, 8:46*am, Tim Taylor > wrote:
>
> >http://www.ens-newswire.com/ens/oct2011/2011-10-04-01.html
>
> >http://www.flickr.com/photos/nasahqphoto/sets/72157627640803245/detail/
>
> It's probably a good thing they didn't base the competition at Ely in
> July, or it would have become a soaring contest.

http://news.blogs.cnn.com/2011/10/04/electric-plane-wins-1-35-million-prize/

[ContestID67[_2_]]

On Oct 5, 6:12*pm, Frank Whiteley > wrote:
>
> http://news.blogs.cnn.com/2011/10/04/electric-plane-wins-1-35-million...

I found this interesting, "Only three of the 14 entrants made it into
the air..."

Any idea what happend to the other 11 gliders...er...aircraft?

[Mike Schumann]

On 10/5/2011 7:09 PM, ContestID67 wrote:
> On Oct 5, 6:12 pm, Frank > wrote:
>>
>> http://news.blogs.cnn.com/2011/10/04/electric-plane-wins-1-35-million...
>
> I found this interesting, "Only three of the 14 entrants made it into
> the air..."
>
> Any idea what happend to the other 11 gliders...er...aircraft?

They didn't finish their development efforts in time.

--
Mike Schumann