Lucky Contest Winners Blast to Edge of Space

November 30, 2010

Consumers who bought Intel Core i5 or Core i7-powered PC’s and completed a short online entry recently earned a spot in a random drawing for a trip to the Sokol Air Base and MiG manufacturing plant in Nizhny Novgorod, Russia, and a flight in a MiG-29. The jet took each of the winning passengers on a one-hour flight achieving speeds of Mach 2.5 (about 2,000 mph). Singapore photographer Raymond Phang was one of lucky winners of the Intel promotion in Asia and snapped this shot at 85,000 above the Russian hinterland at the edge of space. - Photo courtesy (and copyright) Raymond Phang

Lucky Contest Winners Blast to Edge of Space

Consumers who bought Intel Core i5 or Core i7-powered PC’s and completed a short online entry recently earned a spot in a random drawing for a trip to the Sokol Air Base and MiG manufacturing plant in Nizhny Novgorod, Russia, and a flight in a MiG-29. The jet took each of the winning passengers on a one-hour flight achieving speeds of Mach 2.5 (about 2,000 mph). Singapore photographer Raymond Phang was one of lucky winners of the Intel promotion in Asia and snapped this shot at 85,000 above the Russian hinterland at the edge of space. - Photo courtesy (and copyright) Raymond Phang