[Flieger]

Originally Posted by RKDinOKC

When I was into RC one of the RC plane magazines had a contest for the widest flying envelope with a 40 size engine. You got 3 points for ever MPH it would fly controllably under 25mph and 1 for ever mph over. You had to video it flying it's fastest and it's slowest over a specific distance, and submit the video with plans for the plane.

It stared with a $1000 prize, then some aerospace companies got involved in sponsoring the contest and the prize grew to $15,000. It went on for about six months then 3 months before the submission deadline the contest disappeared. No more mention of it in the magazine, no winner announced, it was like it never happened.

I just wonder what it was that someone came up with that was so cool it killed the contest.

tiltrotor.