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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH

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To: Srexley who wrote (171372)8/14/2001 5:48:42 PM
From: Thomas A Watson  Read Replies (1) of 769667
 
The Helios Comes Down to Earth -- a Winner
This is a cool story.
LIHUE, Hawaii (Reuters) - The Helios, NASA (news - w sites)'s solar-powered flying wing, descended to Earth on Tuesday after scaling heights no other airplane has ever reached -- 96,500 feet
The $15 million experimental aircraft, powered by 14 tiny propeller motors that have been described as having the strength of blow dryers, surpassed the horizontal flight record of 85,068 feet set in 1966 by a Lockheed SR-71 jet.

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