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  Then There Were Three - News From Green Flight

  Posted by Graham Warwick 7:58 PM on Sep 28, 2011

  Speaking from California's Sonoma County Airport, site of the Green Flight Challenge, Sam Ortega, NASA's program manager for Centennial Challenges, reveals only three of the origin... Read More >>

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  Photos From NASA's Green Flight Challenge

  Posted by Graham Warwick 5:38 PM on Sep 28, 2011

  Pictures are coming in from NASA's Green Flight Challenge, sponsored by Google and organized by the CAFE Foundation. The goal is to achieve at least 200 passenger-mpg while averagi... Read More >>

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  GALE Will Fly Into the Eye of the Storm

  Posted by Graham Warwick 12:03 PM on Sep 26, 2011

  Air-launched unmanned aircraft are still a relative rarity, but the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration plans to launch one into the eye of a hurricane. Meet GALE an... Read More >>

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  Move Over Prius, Green Flight Challenge Aims High

  Posted by Graham Warwick 2:02 AM on Sep 21, 2011

  Aviation's richest prize is up for grabs on Sep 25-Oct 1 at Sonoma County Airport in California, where the CAFE (Comparative Aircraft Flight Efficiency) Foundation will stage NASA'... Read More >>

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  Want to Recycle Carbonfiber? - Zap it

  Posted by Graham Warwick 7:37 PM on Sep 16, 2011

  Recycling the fiber-reinforced composites used in aircraft structures is difficult, and Europe's Clean Sky initiative is seeking proposals to demonstrate that a technique called el... Read More >>

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  Patent: Hydrogen High Flier

  Posted by Graham Warwick 7:17 PM on Sep 09, 2011

  The late Paul MacCready was a pioneer in human- and solar-powered flight and, while the company he founded, AeroVironment, found fame making small hand-launched UAVs, it had return... Read More >>

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  Gulfstream V Chases Greenhouse Gases

  Posted by Graham Warwick 2:32 PM on Sep 08, 2011

  Aircraft get a lot of the blame for global warming - a disproportionate amount given their share of carbon-dioxide emissions - but they are also useful tools for gathering data to ... Read More >>

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