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To: Flightdeck
Picked off of Space Ref:

As much as 75 percent, by weight, of the Helios Prototype solar electric airplane that crashed into the Pacific Ocean June 26 has been recovered from the waters several miles west of the Hawaiian island of Kauai.

The Helios Prototype is part of a NASA Dryden Flight Research Center project to develop unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) technologies to enable UAVs to perform a variety of long-duration missions including environmental monitoring and telecommunications relay services. Helios was built and operated by AeroVironment, Inc. of Monrovia, Calif.

Burt Rutan's company is Scaled Composites LLC, Mojave, CA.

Just out of curiosity why don't you like Burt Rutan?

10 posted on 09/18/2003 6:06:53 PM PDT by tricky_k_1972
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To: tricky_k_1972
I haven't looked it up, but I'm almost positive Rutan was Helios' designer. I'll check it out.
16 posted on 09/18/2003 10:02:19 PM PDT by Flightdeck
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