To: afraidfortherepublic
On a smaller scale, a competition is under way to develop by next year a personal commuter aircraft that operates on electricity or fuel cells and can average at least 100 mph on a 200-mile flight while achieving greater than 200 passenger mpg. The Green Flight Challenge, sponsored by NASA and the CAFE Foundation, offers a $1.5 million first prize for the aircraft with the best performance.A 100mph airliner?
To: Snickering Hound
The more important question is how many taxpayers per gallon will it be?
14 posted on
08/02/2010 11:07:20 AM PDT by
avg_freeper
(Gunga galunga. Gunga, gunga galunga)
To: Snickering Hound
...200 passenger mpg. Miles per gallon of what? Oooh, I get it, it can go 40 miles on a charge and 160 miles on Jet A.
32 posted on
08/02/2010 12:31:33 PM PDT by
Never on my watch
(The Obama Administration - an outrage a day)
To: Snickering Hound
A 100mph airliner? San Francisco airport suggests arriving two hours before domestic flights. Add two hours for the two hundred mile flight and add at least thirty minutes to retrieve your luggage and secure ground transportation and we're up to 4.5 hours to go 200 miles. That puts us at just under 45 miles an hour for the total trip.
No Thanks!
36 posted on
08/02/2010 12:47:48 PM PDT by
RJL
To: Snickering Hound
A 100mph airliner? Darn tooting. It's the Modern Age
37 posted on
08/02/2010 3:21:26 PM PDT by
Oztrich Boy
(a 16 year old Australian girl already did it. And she did it right. - WWJD)
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