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Old October 5th 11, 04:46 PM posted to rec.aviation.soaring
Tim Taylor
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Default Motor Gliders win the Green Flight Challenge


http://www.ens-newswire.com/ens/oct2...-10-04-01.html


http://www.flickr.com/photos/nasahqp...803245/detail/

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Old October 5th 11, 09:58 PM posted to rec.aviation.soaring
jim wynhoff
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Default Motor Gliders win the Green Flight Challenge

On Oct 5, 8:46*am, Tim Taylor wrote:
http://www.ens-newswire.com/ens/oct2...-10-04-01.html

http://www.flickr.com/photos/nasahqp...803245/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.
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Old October 6th 11, 12:12 AM posted to rec.aviation.soaring
Frank Whiteley
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Default Motor Gliders win the Green Flight Challenge

On Oct 5, 2:58*pm, jim wynhoff wrote:
On Oct 5, 8:46*am, Tim Taylor wrote:

http://www.ens-newswire.com/ens/oct2...-10-04-01.html


http://www.flickr.com/photos/nasahqp...803245/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...million-prize/
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Old October 6th 11, 01:09 AM posted to rec.aviation.soaring
ContestID67[_2_]
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Default Motor Gliders win the Green Flight Challenge

On Oct 5, 6:12*pm, Frank Whiteley wrote:

http://news.blogs.cnn.com/2011/10/04...s-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?
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Old October 6th 11, 01:58 AM posted to rec.aviation.soaring
Mike Schumann
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Default Motor Gliders win the Green Flight Challenge

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...s-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.

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Mike Schumann
 




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