Wed, Sep 21, 2011
Google Offers Largest Ever Prize In An Aviation
Competition
NASA and the Comparative Aircraft Flight Efficiency (CAFE)
Foundation of Santa Rosa, CA, will hold the 2011 Green Flight
Challenge, sponsored by Google, at the Charles M. Schulz Sonoma
County Airport in Santa Rosa from Sept. 25 to Oct. 1. The
competition's goal is to advance technologies in fuel efficiency
and reduced emissions with cleaner renewable fuels and electric
aircraft.
NASA's Centennial Challenges Program is providing $1.65 million
in prize money to the winners of the competition. The purse is the
largest aviation prize ever offered and attracted 13 teams, led by
American innovators. Five of those teams successfully completed
their aircraft and flight qualification requirements and will
compete for the prize purse. The teams will fly their electric,
biofueled and hybrid powered aircraft, to prove they have the most
fuel efficient, small aircraft in the world.
To win the competition, an aircraft must fly 200 miles in less
than two hours and use less than one gallon of fuel per occupant,
or the equivalent in electricity. If more than one aircraft meets
the criteria, first place will go to the team with the best
combination of speed and efficiency. The fuel efficiency
competition is on Tuesday, Sept. 27, and a speed competition on
Sept. 29.
Aircraft will be on public display at the airport following the
competition on Oct. 1, from 1000 to 1600 PDT. An awards ceremony
and the Green Flight Challenge Exposition hosted by NASA will be
held from 0900 to 1600 on Oct. 3, at the agency's Ames Research
Center at Moffett Field, CA.
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