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141 GoFly Prize - $2 Million Dollar Contest to Create a VTOL Aircraft

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4.8730 Ratings

🗓️ 13 March 2020

⏱️ 27 minutes

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141 GoFly Prize - $2 Million Dollar Contest to Create a VTOL Aircraft

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Summary
141 Max attended the final fly off for $1,000,000, the largest prize of the
GoFly Prize competition, and he talks with GoFly founder and CEO Gwen Lighter and DragonAir’s Mariah Cain. Boeing sponsored the $1,000,000 prize and Pratt& Whitney sponsored the $100,000 Disrupter prize. There were three phases to the competition and 855 teams entered from 103 countries.

Mentioned in the Show
GoFly Prize website
GoFly Prize Master Lectures
GoFly Prize Guidelines
GoFly Prize Facebook page
DragonAir Aviation
DragonAir Facebook page
Team teTra website

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DragonAir Aviation 17-minute Flight Video

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0:00.0

I think that a lot of women have these, I don't know, these preconceived notions of what they can do or what they're supposed to be doing.

0:09.5

And I don't think those exist anymore.

0:11.6

I don't think there's these gender roles, these gender-specific roles nowadays.

0:15.8

Anybody can do anything they put their mind to.

0:18.3

And what I'd like to do is use what I'm doing to really inspire

0:22.1

people to push past those boundaries, right? Especially because when you decide you're going to do

0:26.5

something, something big that you feel like it's totally right for you, everyone's going to tell

0:30.4

you no. That's not a good idea. You're not going to make any money. And this is like, really,

0:34.9

I want to inspire people to push past all that.

0:41.1

That's aiah Kane, the 24-year-old CEO of Dragon Air Aviation, one of five finalists for the biggest go-fly prize of $1 million.

0:50.1

In a moment, we'll be talking with Gwen Leiter, founder of the Go Fly Prize and with Mariah

0:54.6

Kane, both of whom I met at the final day of competition for the big prize.

0:59.1

Hello again and welcome to Aviation News Talk, a weekly show with relevant news and

1:03.0

flying tips for pilots and student pilots to help keep you safe.

1:06.1

I'm Max Truscott.

1:07.4

Earlier this week in episode 140, I talked in depth about how the coronavirus is affecting

1:12.3

aviation, including the airlines, flight training, and charter flight companies. And that show

1:17.8

is even more relevant today than when I released it three days ago. So if you haven't heard it,

1:21.8

you may want to check it out. And if you're new to this show, please click the subscribe button

1:26.5

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1:35.3

Now, let's talk about the Go Fly Prize.

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