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Skyprowler looks good.

I still wonder...back when I was really into R/C planes one of the magazines started a contest for plane design. You had to use a .40 size motor. You got 5 points for every mph under 25mph it could fly controllably (hover being best case) and 1 point for every mph over 25 mph. They were obviously looking for a design that would hover and then fly as fast as possible.

The deadline was 1 year to submit your design with a video showing the slowest and fastest speeds. During the next months several aerospace companies got involved and the prize for the winning design got up to $25,000. The magazine even had articles featuring a couple of entries including one from full size airplane designer Burt Rutan.

Then at about 9 months the contest just disappeared. It was like it never existed. I've always wondered what someone came up with that was so good it killed the contest.
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