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Investigation - Structural failure is being blamed for an airplane crash that killed a Granum man last week.

Transportation Safety Board investigator Barry Holt said the right wing of the ultralight aircraft being piloted by 60-year-old Donald Berruth failed during the flight on April 22.

Berruth, the only occupant of the plane, died after crashing into a field near Granum, about 150 kilometres south of Calgary.

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Tuesday, March 13, 2007

Solar Powered UAV to set the World's Endurance Record
By FlyingNews @ 5:27 PM :: 142 Views :: 0 Comments :: Small Aircraft Manufacturers, Ultralight

A team of students from the Technion Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa is working on a new solar powered unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) which they hope will soon break a 17 year old world aviation record. Although solar aviation is nothing new, it is still considered to be in its infancy. The work done at the Technion as well as elsewhere around the world is starting to attract the attention of the aviation industry with the hope of creating green aircrafts with a much higher endurance threshold.

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