NASA handed out $ 250,000 in prize money this weekend to aircraft designers who competed in a competition to produce personal air - vehicle . But do n’t be befool by the picture and think that the consequence was full of flying railroad car , experimental planes and UFO - form disc — all the newcomer were standard - calculate planes , as you will see in the videos after the jump .
The event was part of the Centennial Challenges , the government - patronize competitions that aim to have us all flying to the bureau in the morning and taking holiday on the moon as presently as possible . The money was given out in six categories : f number , unretentive mockery , efficiency , manipulation , noise and overall best .
The grand plunder of $ 100,000 , plus two $ 25,000 prizes , go to a slenderly - change Pipistrel Virus , like the one shown below . It cost $ 70,000 Modern , so the team was essentially award a liberal plane and $ 80,000 of gaseous state money .
Another received looking sheet , a modified Vans RV-4 as shown below , won $ 25,000 and $ 50,000 for speeding and racket part . One team were flying a Cessna 172 , which has been in production since the 1940 ’s , and even they won a prize . Next year I ’m going to become up with a remote control planing machine – it would probably win me enough to take a nice vacation . [ CNet ]
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