NASA Launches 1.5 Million Dollar Green Flight Challenge

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The next frontier in green transportation is bound to be flight travel, which is why it is not surprising to see that NASA just announced the Green Flight Challenge. The competition will be awarding a prize of $1.5 million to the first plane to achieve 100 miles per hour, for 200 miles. That may not sound that impressive until you realize that the plane must achieve an efficiency of 200 passenger miles per gallon – not an easy feat!

2 Responses to “NASA Launches 1.5 Million Dollar Green Flight Challenge”

modular buildings says:

August 5, 2009 at 6:24 am

I think that many more companies should offer such competitions.

This way creative geniuses can show off their skills whilst their abilities will be able to provide advancement in technology.
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