This weekend, NASA held its first Personal Aircraft Vehicle (PAV) Challenge, a test of experimental small-seat airplanes with a prize purse of $250,000. The contestants were all flying modified planes (some more so than others), including a home-built kit plane called the Vans RV-4, two Slovenia-built sport planes, and a Cessna 172.
The goal of the challenge was to test the fuel efficiency and speed of small planes to build a model for future PAVs, which proponents hope could one day serve as a more economical, environmentally friendly way for people to get around and circumvent auto gridlock.
Pictured here is a concept design of what the future PAV's might look like in your suburban driveway.
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looks like a P51-Mustang
Osiramon@... | 08/14/07
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