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Two years ago, GoFly launched the GoFly Prize and since then some 854 teams comprising 3,800 Innovators from 103 countries around the globe entered the $2+ million competition to literally change the world by creating the first-ever safe and quiet personal flyers. The culminating event of this unprecedented challenge, the GoFly Final Fly Off, will be held on February 28-29, 2020, the days surrounding Leap Day, at the historic Moffett Federal Airfield located at NASA's Ames Research Center in Silicon Valley. Avidyne Corpora

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Riley Speidel is not like most 14-year-old girls. Instead of living on social media, talking about boys, fashion, and anything else many other 14-year-old girls do, Riley’s interests are navigation, aircraft performance, and fuel consumption. Finishing the school year on June 7, most of Riley’s classmates would be thinking about summer vacation, summer jobs and chasing boys, but Riley is different!

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Discrete Code As used in the Air Traffic Control Radar Beacon System (ATCRBS), any one of the 4096 selectable Mode 3/A aircraft transponder codes except those ending in zero zero; e.g., discrete codes: 0010, 1201, 2317, 7777; nondiscrete codes: 0100, 1200, 7700. Nondiscrete codes are normally reserved for radar facilities that are not equipped with discrete decoding capability and for other purposes such as emergencies (7700), VFR aircraft (1200), etc.

"Sukhoi Superjet 100 – is dynamically developing program. The installation of the saberlets allows to simultaneously improve the take-off and landing performance. Moreover, fuel effectiveness will improve. Customers will be able to decrease the fuel consumption for no less than 4 percent. Source: Denis Manturov, Minister for Industry and Trade of Russian Federation, discussing the flight test program of the SSJ100 with the horizontal wing tips has been successfully completed at an airport in Zhukovsky, Russia. Two Sukhoi SSJ100 with serial numbers 95032 and 95157 fitted with the horizontal wing tips took part in the testing. One of them had ice simulators of special shape on the leading edge and the empennage.