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Friday, July 29, 2011
by: Amy Keiter, Community Relations Manager
What a difference a few hours makes. I posted earlier that the Elektra One team was feeling pretty low when they learned that their demo flight was scratched for today. But it’s all smiles now with the announcement that PC-Aero was awarded the prestigious Lindbergh Prize for Electric Aircraft Vision Award at the World Electric Aircraft Symposium.
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Friday, July 29, 2011
by: Amy Keiter, Community Relations Manager
In the few days since I met him here at Oshkosh, it's become abundantly clear that Calin Gologan, designer of Elektra One, is not a man who gives up easily. Every time there's been an obstacle here at AirVenture (and there have been many), he has responded with a German-accented, "Oh, zat's easy!" But Calin may not be able to overcome a decision by show organizers this morning that Elektra One will not fly today. He still hasn't given up; I saw him pressing his case to an official...
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Thursday, July 28, 2011
by: Amy Keiter, Community Relations Manager
Being here at Oshkosh promoting solar electric-powered flight with the PC-Aero team, it’s hard to ignore the fact that there are somewhere in the neighborhood of 10,000 aircraft here, of which 9,994 are powered by burning dinosaurs…I mean, fossil fuels.
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Thursday, July 28, 2011
by: Amy Keiter, Community Relations Manager
I came to Oshkosh this week with a simple story to tell: SolarWorld is helping to transform aviation through the development of electric aircraft, in partnership with PC-Aero. Until last night, I did not understand how serious – and how immediate – this transformation is.
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Wednesday, July 27, 2011
by: Amy Keiter, Community Relations Manager
Torrential rains on the AirVenture airshow in Oshkosh, Wisc., are making the Innovation Hangar at the show a very popular spot. The hangar is filled with spectators all clad in plastic rain slickers of every hue, trying to stay out of the pounding downpour.
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Tuesday, July 26, 2011
by: Amy Keiter, Community Relations Manager
Say “Oshkosh” to any pilot – my husband, for example – and you get the same reaction as saying “Sturgis” to a Harley rider or “Vegas” to a blackjack player. Oshkosh, Wisconsin is the home of the largest aviation show in the U.S: AirVenture, and Oshkosh is the number one “bucket list” destination for aviation enthusiasts.
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Monday, July 25, 2011
by: Rebecca Hagen, Communications Faculty Advisor to Team Florida
We’re now into the second month of construction on FLeX House. And like every construction project, we’ve experienced a few hiccups–supplies arriving later than expected, parts not fitting quite as designed–but nothing serious. It’s amazing to see how quickly the house is taking shape.
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Monday, July 18, 2011
by: Kohl Christensen, SolarWorld authorized installer
The first event on the Big Wave World Tour went down in some very big, cold and scary surf in the south of Chile. I stuck to my game plan and headed down a couple weeks before the end of the holding period of the contest to practice and loosen up the injured shoulder.