Stroud Students Soar with Boeing Aviation Challenge
STROUD, United Kingdom, March 19, 2014 – Boeing [NYSE: BA] and the Royal Aeronautical Society (RAeS) congratulated students from Marling School, Stroud High School and Maidenhill School in Gloucestershire, as their student-built light aircraft G-SBAP took to the skies in a series of first student flights at Gloucestershire Airport, UK. The two-seater RANS S6ES Coyote II aircraft was build from a kit as part of the Boeing and RAeS Schools Build-a-Plane Challenge in association with the Light Aircraft Association. The photo was taken during the airplane’s first flight in April 2013.
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Photo Credit: Stephen Cook
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Katerina Giannini
Boeing Corporate Communications
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Boeing Corporate Communications
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Gordana Micic
SBAP Programme Manager
Royal Aeronautical Society
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