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NASA's Flying Wing Breaks 2 Records

Posted by Hemos on from the still-going-still-going dept.

ELBnet writes "CNN reports in this story that NASA's Helios flying wing broke the altitude records for both a propeller and jet aircraft with an altitude of 85,100 feet... and they were still climbing shooting for 100,000."

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  1. And this is even more stupid. by Colin+Smith · · Score: 1, Troll

    So now you're thinking of packing up a *240* foot aircraft and taking it to Mars in order to explore Mars rather than taking a big empty plastic bag and a bottle of compressed Helium?

    Any way you look at it, Helios is a stupid project, wasting time and money trying to push conventional technologies to absurd degrees.

    Classic NASA though.

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