Lindbergh Electric Aircraft Prize

[Lock]

http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2014733145_flight10m.html

Saturday, April 9, 2011
Another Lindbergh making his mark
Winners of the Lindbergh Electric Aircraft Prize will be announced in Germany this week by Bainbridge Island's Erik Lindbergh, grandson of aviation pioneer Charles Lindbergh, booster of clean-flight technology and founder of a program to encourage high-school students to seek and celebrate innovation.

By Jack Broom
Seattle Times staff reporter

LEAP awarded its first set of Lindbergh Electric Aircraft Prizes last summer, honoring China-based Yuneec, makers of a small, electrically powered plane; Wisconsin-based Sonex Aircraft for an electric propulsion system; and Axel Lange of Germany for the development of an electric production aircraft, the Antares 20E.

Full article in the link
tks
LocK

[Miles]

Thanks for the link, Lock.

"Of all the things Erik Lindbergh remembers about his famous grandfather, one that sticks with him best is their debate over how to pronounce the word "helicopter."

Charles Lindbergh, who had made the first solo flight across the Atlantic in 1927, brought a toy helicopter to his grandson on Bainbridge Island in the early 1970s, and Erik thanked him for the "HELL-i-cop-ter," the pronunciation used today.

But Charles Lindbergh, who had long ago collaborated on projects with helicopter pioneer Igor Sikorsky, said "HEE-li-cop-ter," the pronunciation he'd heard from the man many consider the father of the modern helicopter.

"We were both stubborn and wouldn't give in. And in a way we were both right," said Erik Lindbergh, adding with a smile: "But my pronunciation won out over time.""

Etymologically, it should be "Heelico - Pter".................

[Lock]

Hehe... ya, most don't have a problem pronouncing helix as HEElix rather than HELLix


Pretty fun bunch on that selection committee... grandson of Lindbergh, great-grandniece of Orville and Wilbur, son of Sikorsky, great-great-grandnephew of Zeppelin...

LocK

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www.yuneec.com won the prize in 2010