We haven't heard anything yet this morning from the Advanced Aero Vehicle Team and Sky Miner, their 2009 heavy lift aircaft. We are pretty sure our Miners are frantically trying to get in a few more flights because there is a huge cluster of rain and thunderstorms approaching the competition site.
Most teams gradually increase their payloads with each flight, hoping to snare more points. Late on the second flight day it is not uncommon for a team to fly its maximum design payload in a last-ditch attempt to take over first place. The old expression "go for broke" often applies because that's what happens to some aircraft; they break, sometimes in spectacular ways. Let's hope that doesn't happen to the Miners today.
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