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Google Signs on as Green Flight Challenge Sponsor
The CAFE Foundation announced recently that Google will sponsor the NASA Centennial Challenge flight competition known as the Green Flight Challenge. CAFE (Comparative Aircraft Flight Efficiency) will...
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Green Flight Challenge, Opening Remarks
KITPLANES Columnist Dean Sigler will be blogging from the Green Flight Challenge this week. Herewith, his first report on the entrants that arrived on Sunday. Pipistrel G4: two fuselages, four...
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Green Flight Challenge, The Quiet Ones
e-Genius. Early this week many spectators at the Green Flight Challenge in Santa Rosa, California, had their first view of an electric airplane in flight. After the weighing team rolled the Phoenix...
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Green Flight Challenge, The Main Event
CAFE Foundation Hangar Boss Mike Fenn waves the speed competition checkered flag. Tuesday was a glorious, clear day, and one could see all the way to the peaks surrounding the Sonoma Valley. This was...
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Green Flight Challenge Video Report by CAFE Foundation
The CAFE Foundation published a video report showing takeoffs and landings of the participating aircraft. Each aircraft’s efficiency is evaluated using special hardware to measure total energy output,...
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Green Flight Challenge, The Winners
The Pipistrel team. Monday October 3 marked the Green Flight Challenge Expo, sponsored by Google and staged under the control tower at the center of Moffett Field, home of NASA Ames Research Center....
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Sebring Light Sport Aircraft Expo 2012
Jean-Luc Rousseau holds the demonstrably ultra-light trike. There was, admittedly, a large array of every type of LSA in attendance at the Light Sport Aircraft Expo January 19 to 22, in Sebring,...
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Creating a Standard for Electrified AC
Ron Gremban's Cessna is now electric. Ron Gremban is an early developer of plug-in electric hybrid (PHEV) automobiles, having converted hundreds of Toyota Prius vehicles to extend their electric-only...
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Eric Raymond Seeks Tour of the Americas on Solar Power
Eric Raymond flew across the U.S. in Sunseeker I on solar power in 21 hops in 1990. He crossed the Alps between Germany and Italy in 2009 flying Sunseeker II. He co-piloted e-Genius with Klaus...
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