NASA $300,000 prize: GenAv Challenge, Green Prize

[Brien A. Seeley M.D.]

New 2008 flight competition for RVs. RV-4 won $65,000 last year. LSA class for 2008.
NASA will fund the first-ever Green Prize for transportation as part of a $300,000 flight competition next summer in Santa Rosa, California. The goal of the annual competition is "sustainable mobility" by affordable aircraft that use renewable fuels and are immune to gridlock. The prizes aim to improve the efficiency, community acceptance, door-to-door speed, and safety of the Personal Air Vehicle (PAV). Formerly known as the PAV Challenge, the expanded 2008 event will be called the General Aviation Technology Challenge and will be held August 2-10, 2008. The non-profit CAFE Foundation, the flight test agency selected by NASA to conduct the event for the next four years, has published details and the official competition rules at http://cafefoundation.org/v2/pav_gatchallenge.php.