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good afternoon and welcome to today's

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awards ceremony here at the nasa ames

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research center at moffett field

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california

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for the green flight challenge sponsored

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by google it's a great day to have you

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all here it's great to have the teams

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here and it's a wonderful day to

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announce the winner of the first green

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flight challenge

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before we get to that i'd like to

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introduce our host for the day the

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deputy acting deputy director of nasa

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good afternoon is it afternoon just

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lightly

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well welcome to ames we are very pleased

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to host the green flight challenge expo

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uh we want to congratulate all the teams

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who participated in the google green

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flight challenge in santa rosa this past

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week

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as you may know air travel is uh

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predicted to double in the next 20 years

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and because of this we need to find ways

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to make aircraft travel more efficient

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while maintaining safety

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to help achieve that goal we conduct

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wind tunnel tests computer modeling and

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computational fluid dynamic simulations

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nasa ames has a history of always being

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at the forefront of cutting-edge

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aeronautics technologies starting more

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than 70 years ago when ames was founded

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as part of the national advisory

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committee for aeronautics

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people like heinz ersberger came to ames

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in 1965 to seek out ways to make air

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travel safer and more efficient

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erzberger created software tools

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designed to help air traffic controllers

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better manage traffic flow by providing

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them timely information about aircraft

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in the system including predictions and

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advice on sequencing aircraft and

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avoiding conflicts

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many of those innovation tools are still

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in use today

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as we look to the future of aviation

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nasa ames research center continues to

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conduct advanced aeronautics research

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with next-gen and air traffic management

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next gen strives to reduce air traffic

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emissions while lessening congestion in

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the nasa in the nation's airways

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thank you for attending and we hope you

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thank you deb uh for those of you

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watching on television or following us

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on the web you can learn more about nasa

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ames it's one of our spectacular nasa

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it's now my great privilege and honor to

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introduce dr brian seeley brian is the

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thank you david it's a great pleasure to

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be here this culmination of three years

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of effort at the cafe foundation to

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bring forth the green flight challenge

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i'm mainly here to issue thank yous and

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i want to be very quick about it but i

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first want to say we consider this truly

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a pivotal historic event in aviation

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and i there's much more time later to

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tell you why that's the case but our

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vision at cafe is that the green flight

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challenge will bring forth future air

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vehicles that are quiet that are

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emission free

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that are very safe

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and that can land just about anywhere

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do what birds do

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more on that later

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our future vision has been helped

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by the support from everyone but

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particularly i want to thank

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the amazing diverse skill set of the

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cafe

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board of directors who who really

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brought this together and just put out

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tremendously

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the eaa chapter 124 volunteers who are

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another group of fantastic people the

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backbone of our event

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the nasa people who worked with us

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even on weekends to put things together

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and decide things and

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get this program together

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they've been absolutely great

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and i want to particularly thank google

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for actually making this possible a cafe

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sponsorship for this

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until google rescued us

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not only made it possible but made it

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possible to do it up in a very good

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fashion made possible the world's first

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electric aircraft charging station

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powered by clean geothermal energy

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thank google i i want to invite up anita

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thank you brian

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we're really excited to be here today at

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google we're committed to a clean energy

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feature and in fact we've been carbon

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and we've also invested over 850 million

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dollars already in the sectors thus far

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we believe green transportation is a key

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part an important part of this clean

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energy future

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in fact that's why we've been greeting

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our transportations at google for a

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while in fact we've had an electric

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vehicle program for three years now and

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now we have one of the largest electric

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vehicle charging stations in the u.s 200

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charging stations just down the road

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so we're that's why work really is

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exciting to support this year's green

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flight challenge we really believe that

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green aviation is the next frontier

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we want to issue a

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huge congratulations to the teams to

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cafe foundation for organizing the event

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to nasa for their important support for

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this important effort and overall we're

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just extremely thrilled to be part of

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this in helping usher in a new

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generation of emission-free aviation

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thank you anita and thank google i've

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it's now my honor and privilege to

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eric lindberg eric is going to be giving

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out an award for

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the quietest aircraft in the competition

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our mission at leap is to stimulate

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innovation

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for a resilient future we do that

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through offering prizes

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and focusing on the electric aircraft

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industry advancing the development of an

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industry that has the potential to

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revolutionize the way we move about the

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we've also formed an electric aircraft

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development alliance to help work on

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safety and regulations and

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standardization to help again advance

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the development of the industry

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youth education program where high

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school teams are are going out and

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solutions to problems innovators really

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focusing on innovators and then sharing

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that information as wide as possible in

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order to solve all of the problems that

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we need to create a whole generation who

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are incentivized to go out seek out

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problems as potential opportunities to

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move their forward in their college and

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back of a transport category aircraft

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aviation is threatened

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biggest one of the biggest threats is

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we're here to announce the the lindbergh

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prize for quietest aircraft and i want

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to say that we're very fortunate to have

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donation from a private citizen

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jeannie schultz whose husband charles m

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the airport at santa rosa was named

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after so jeannie donated ten thousand

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dollars so that we could award that

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with the quietest aircraft prize

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the aircraft that won

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the prize this first quietest aircraft

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prize had a dba a really a noise

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standpoint of 56 to 62

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dba so very quiet for an example that's

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16 times less noise than a than a

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turbofan aircraft and and on our way

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a little app on our phone that said

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on behalf of my entire team who i won't

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mention individually i got very thankful

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me is people expect progress

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future there will be electric koi

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is support for the engineers which often

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uh thank you and congratulations eric

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we're now going to see a brief video

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that captures some of the highlights of

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the green flight challenge as seen over

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the dream i guess of everyone for a long

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it really is the dawn of a new era for

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this challenge is uh for a total of

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we'll use it for further aircraft

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we want to fly something or build

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something that's just as efficient as a

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proposal for this i laughed because it

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was impossible it just couldn't be done

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and yet in two years

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there's at least two airplanes here that

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i know of that electric that i think can

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meet the criteria

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it's happening and it's happening

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exponentially

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the batteries get better

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these airplanes are going to get better

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and when we see that

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it's going to start to change the way we

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today's prize prize purse is being

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provided by nasa through a nasa program

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called the centennial challenges program

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that program is a program that offers

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prize purses to technology challenges

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and innovation challenges that are of

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benefit to nasa and to the nation

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and to industry

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it's a program that encourages inventors

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citizen inventors students and teams

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from

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all walks of life to compete to win a

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purse prize the government doesn't

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actually pay

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until a goal is met that program is

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overseen by the space technology program

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at nasa which oversees nasa's technology

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and innovation development for future

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missions which in turn is part of our

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office of the chief technologist

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we're lucky to have with us today our

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acting chief technologist joe parrish

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who is going to announce the winners of

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thank you david it's a wonderful day

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today i'd like to make a couple of brief

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acknowledgments and then i have a couple

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of brief thoughts also before we

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announce the winners

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i'd like to acknowledge a few

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individuals some of whose names you've

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heard already but some you have not

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mark moore and bruce holmes at nasa

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langley are actually responsible for the

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original idea for the green flight

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challenge and they came up with this

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idea back in 2005 and we've been working

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toward this end ever since then so we're

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grateful for them for having such an

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innovative idea and setting us on the

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path to get us where we are today i'd

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like to also acknowledge sam ortega and

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larry cooper from nasa the centennial

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challenges program they have been

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shepherding this this effort along for

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months and months and months they must

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think it's years and years and years and

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this is also a culmination of their

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their hard effort

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to dr brian seely and his colleagues his

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all-volunteer team at cafe and his

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colleagues from from the eaa chapter at

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the sonoma airport they are just

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terrific and they've been a wonderful

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allied organization to nasa to execute

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this program i'd like to also thank

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google for sponsoring this expo for

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installing the cafe installing the the

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charging station at sonoma county

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airport and for their support to the

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cafe foundation

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and then thank and finally i'd like to

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thank nasa ames for hosting us today and

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providing the wonderful flight line for

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the demonstration of the aircraft and

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the facilities that we're using right

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now so thanks to everyone for that

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there are

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three teams that qualified for the green

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flight competition the first one is the

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e-genius team led by eric raymond

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the next one is the phoenix air team led

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by jim lee

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and the third is the langeland

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aeronautics llc pipedrill usa team led

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by jack langeline

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in addition flying in exhibition mode

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was the echo eagle from embry riddle

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aeronautical university it was fantastic

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to have four aircraft flying in

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in california this week and

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demonstrating the wonders of electric

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and hybrid flight and clean flight

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there were tremendous accomplishments

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made in aerodynamics aircraft

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configuration design

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power plant design and integration and

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flight path planning

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these aircraft are five to ten times

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more efficient than conventional

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aircraft and in fact they're even three

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times more efficient than

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large transport aircraft it was not

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possible to win the green flight

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challenge with an existing aircraft

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design innovation was required in order

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lighter batteries more compact and

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powerful electric motors sleeker and

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lighter

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structures are going to benefit more

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than just the aerospace community

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they're going to usher in technologies

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that are useful in the automotive

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industry

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in mass transit in the green energy

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industries

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and we are extremely impressed by the

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ingenuity and the inventiveness that

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have been shown by the participants in

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the green flight challenge the folks who

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produce these innovative aircraft

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i hope to be looking back on this day

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from the not too fast distant future and

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talking about how the dawn of practical

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electric flight broke today

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just as the ortega prize was won by

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charles lindbergh and the spirit of st

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louis

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that one showed that airplanes could be

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used to fly long distances with

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reliability and the ansari x prize

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showed

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heralded in a new private space flight

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industry

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we hope that the green flight challenge

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will inspire a renaissance in aviation a

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new breed and a new industry in fact of

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hyper-efficient airplanes ranging from

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aircraft of the size that we've seen

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flying in the competition today all the

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way up to large passenger transports

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before i announce the winner of the

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prize i'd like to mention that nasa and

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the american taxpayers are also winners

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through prize competitions like the

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green flight challenge nasa has turned

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the technology development cost equation

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on its head

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in this case instead of contracting for

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tens of millions of dollars

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for a concept that might or might not

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work

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nasa is paying only one and a half

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million dollars and we only pay if it

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considering that

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so every once in a while we seem smart

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don't we

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considering that over four million

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dollars was uh was was spent by the

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competitors on the way to this prize we

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think this is a fantastic deal for for

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the american taxpayer

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and nasa is absolutely committed to

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fostering innovative solutions through

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innovative mechanisms

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okay now to the announcement that you've

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all been waiting for

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the judges from cafe and nasa have

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totaled the scores from this week's

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competition

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i'm pleased to announce that two teams

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have met or exceeded the 200 passenger

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mile per gallon standard and they've

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exceeded them by a very large margin

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i'll tell you the the buy how large a

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to give you just a little bit of

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suspense i will announce the second

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place

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winner first and then on to the first

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place and i'll invite both teams to come

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up and receive their checks and then the

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first place winner will have some some

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remarks to make

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in second place

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with a score of

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375.8 miles per gallon

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is the e genius team led by eric raymond

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taking a prize of

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120

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dollars

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please stay with me for a moment

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so you had to do

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better than

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385 miles per gallon to win this

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competition

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in first place with a passenger miles

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is the langeland aerospace llc pipedrill

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usa team led by jack langlin

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your prize is

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yeah congratulations

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please give them your applause they've

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i hope they'll let me take this home on

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uh before i really get started i'd like

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my team to stand up pippistralusa.com

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you will be hard pressed to find a

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better group of engineers and pilots

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and also the people that are not here

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but helped enormously along the way uh

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the aerospace engineering department at

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penn state my department head george

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lucert for all his support along the way

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we could have done it without everybody

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so many many years ago on december 17th

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in uh

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1903 orville wright flew 120 feet in 12

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seconds

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only two years later at huffman prairie

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near what is now wright-patterson air

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force base they were flying more than 20

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miles in flights that were lasting more

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than 30 minutes this is incredible

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progress

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in 2008 at the experimental aircraft

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association convention

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at oshkosh larry fishman's

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battery-powered electrifly rc was first

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flown publicly this airplane could fly

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70 miles an hour it could fly for about

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45 minutes or so

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now at the green flight challenge

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two airplanes

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were able to fly more than 200 passenger

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miles per gallon at more than 100 miles

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an hour the e-genius and the pipistrel

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taurus g4 four people aboard the taurus

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g4

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and our average energy consumption was

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over 400 passenger miles per gallon this

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years together we have all shown that

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electricity is not only a viable but in

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fact a beautiful way of powering these

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airplanes when our airplanes fly

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overhead 2 000 feet up we cannot hear

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them

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when they fly by they are no emissions

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the power to recharge your batteries

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came from a geothermal plant powered by

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geysers near santa rosa

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this is absolutely incredible i pay

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about eight cents a kilowatt hour for

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electricity in state college okay so

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that means to fly the taurus g4 for two

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hours cost me about seven dollars

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compare that with the cost of flying a

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standard four passenger airplane for two

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hours that's an awful lot of aviation

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gasoline

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compare the environmental impact of our

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electricity with environmental impact of

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all those gallons of aviation gasoline

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onboard the the standard airplanes

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we're at the point where personal air

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travel is becoming both affordable and

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truly green this is absolutely

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incredible there are many many people

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out there now building electrically

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powered airplanes in startup companies

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and small businesses and in their

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garages we have to encourage this to

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continue and we have to continue to

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drive the technology

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teampipistralusa.com believes that

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technological progress comes from both

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bold vision and from grand challenges

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and because of that pipistrelle if nasa

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google and the cafe foundation accept

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the challenge pipistrel will donate 100

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000

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to the first electrically powered

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airplane that can fly faster than the

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we fully expect that somebody will win

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this award within the next five years

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so we are going to go from the first

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flight of a battery-powered airplane to

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supersonic flight within one decade that

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is going to be absolutely amazing

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we're all incredibly proud of what we

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what we've done here and we expect it to

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be enormous changes in aviation over the

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couple of years to come we congratulate

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all of the teams and their achievements

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and we thank nasa google and the cafe

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foundation for enabling this historic

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competition and we're all looking

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forward to the future of electric

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aviation with enormous anticipation

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thank you jack

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surprise for you to help close the show

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today

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uh our folks at cafe have something to

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uh give you to commemorate today's

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uh winning of the green flight challenge

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uh bringing it up the aisle here is

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actually the sculptor

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ralph carlson from sebastopol california

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green flight challenge

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trophy

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congratulations to our winners and

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everybody who participated in the green

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flight challenge

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thank you for joining us here at nasa's

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ames research center for today's awards

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for more information about the green

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flight challenge in nasa visit