Comment by Gary Mortimer on October 6, 2009 at 12:55am

As Dean has mentioned elsewhere lots of foam flying wings next year I think ;-) Don't forget most of this carnage was caused by the flight termination criteria set by CASA, or rather its method.

Comment by evilmacaw on October 6, 2009 at 6:28am

Main Control : Range Control we have lost the Bird
Range Control : roger Main Control ,Range Control will terminate the Bird (flips cover over big Red button , turns key and presses button , Kaboom , bright Flash in the sky)
Range Control : Main Control the Bird has been terminated
Main Control : roger that Range Control we have debris on radar at 5 miles down range, altitude 344 feet AGL
Main Control : well done all we will have to try that one again soon Over

;))

Comment by Dimitar Kolev on October 6, 2009 at 1:38pm

Forgive me stupid question folks, but isn't it possible such planes with this amount of work and hardware on them to have failsafe parachute (acting under some altitude or else) which save at least electronics and at most the entire plane?

Comment by automatik on October 6, 2009 at 4:16pm

@Dimitar: competition rules...

Comment by Chris Anderson on October 6, 2009 at 8:34pm

Dang---more!

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