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US space agency NASA has announced a competition for green aircraft designers, in which low-carbon flying machines will contend for a $1.5m prize at a contest to be held in California in two years' time. The Taurus Electro battery motor-glider from Pipistrel You didn't want that flying car, did you? Have an electric plane ( …

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  1. Sureo

    $1.5M?

    Can anyone really design and build an aircraft like this for no more than $1.5M? They'll probably cost that much to buy one.

    I would hate to run out of biogas in mid-flight.

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  2. Duncan 5

    To be held at Charles M Schulz Airport....

    So the winning entry must be a red doghouse with a beagle on top!

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  3. Anonymous Coward
    Happy

    I think

    The Register is in pole postition for this

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  4. Geoff Bin In
    Pint

    Early attempt

    The Shuttleworth collection have an English Electric Wren built in 1923 which

    achieved 87.5 mpg :-

    http://www.shuttleworth.org/shuttleworth_aircraft_details.asp?ID=13

    One might hope that doubling that performance in some 80 years should

    not be too difficult...

    Geoff

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  5. Anonymous Coward
    Pint

    Make mine a B52H

    Powered with lentil, peace and free love.

    Or 181,610L of your finest JP8, barman.

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  6. Hairy
    Stop

    Quietness

    It seems to me we are just talking about gliders with enough power to take off to a suitable altitude here, as such one would expect them to be extremely quiet once airborne. Even if this is not the case, noise is just escaping energy, therefore any vehicle that wants to be as efficient as possible must as a part of that efficiency drive reduce noise...

    Oh yeah, and I'd rather run out of biogas in a glider than a flying car! ;o)

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