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Prize for Human Powered Flight Raised to $250k

Sikorsky Aircraft Corp. have decided, since they recently announced a dramatic change in the prize money for the Igor I. Sikorsky Human-Powered Helicopter Competition, from $20,000 to $250,000.
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Rocket Man in Auckland Domain NZ

 

On the 6th of August 2009 a man was spotted flying - assisted with a rocketpack - in New Zealand's Auckland Domain.

 

 
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Fuel Sipping Diesel DA42 - Austria to Ontario

austroengine_120 Diamond is flying DA42 powered by twin Austro AE300 170 hp turbo-diesel engines from Austria to EAA AirVenture Oshkosh, stock, with no ferry tanks. For long distance flyers, the DA42's seven legs of 3 to 4.5 hours over two and a half days from Austria to London, Ontario, may be less impressive than the fact that it's carrying a six foot seven inch pilot "comfortably."

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Fire Boss Air Tanker Down, Pilot Hurt
conairfireboss_120 An air tanker pilot escaped with minor injuries after his amphibious Fire Boss (a highly modified Air Tractor) crashed in Okanagan Lake in south central British Columbia Saturday. The unidentified pilot, who worked for Abbotsford-based Conair, was rescued by boaters.
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Flying to Queenstown Becomes Safer

qt_multilat_120 Queenstown Airport is one of New Zealand's most difficult airports to fly into because of the area's terrain.

It is why it has never been able to use conventional radar, but now a new system is changing that.
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Back in the air after 50 years

Fox%20Moth%20150 After almost 50 years one of the world’s five remaining airworthy DH-83 Fox Moths has been restored.
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Planespotter Captures Birdstrike

birdstrikegermania_120 Some days just don't go as planned and the crew of this Germania Airlines Boeing 737 was having one of those days on Wednesday. The Daily Mail says 200 starlings were ingested by the right engine of the aircraft as it took off from Dusseldorf bound to Kosovo.

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