{"id":4435,"date":"2011-09-23T07:31:58","date_gmt":"2011-09-23T14:31:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cafe.foundation\/blog\/?p=4435"},"modified":"2011-09-23T07:31:58","modified_gmt":"2011-09-23T14:31:58","slug":"pipistrel-preparing-for-green-flight-challenge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cafe.foundation\/blog\/pipistrel-preparing-for-green-flight-challenge\/","title":{"rendered":"Pipistrel Preparing for Green Flight Challenge"},"content":{"rendered":"

Michael Coates<\/a>, American distributor for Pipistrel, shares some pictures and videos of the G4, four-seat, twin-fuselage electric motorglider a \u201ctechnology demonstrator\u201d for the company and its entry in the Google\/NASA\/CAFE Foundation Green Flight Challenge, which starts Sunday, September 25 in Santa Rosa, California.\u00a0 The Pipistrel team, headed by Jack Langelann of Pennsylvania State University, is working out Hollister, California\u2019s airport, about 70 miles south of San Francisco and 150 miles from Santa Rosa.\u00a0 The team expects to fly to Charles M. Schulz field on \u201cFriday or Saturday of the this week\u201d for the competition.<\/p>\n

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Little doubt remains as to the manufacturer. Photo: Gregor Veble<\/p><\/div>\n

Pilot Robin Reid guided the big bi-fuselage craft through its paces and brought back this in-flight video, which shows the visibility is better than one would expect \u2013 except of the other fuselage, the nose of which can be seen just under the central propeller.<\/p>\n