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Old May 7th 13, 12:38 PM posted to rec.aviation.soaring
Evan Ludeman[_4_]
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Default Experience with StarkPower LIFEPo4 Batteries?

On Monday, May 6, 2013 8:53:10 PM UTC-4, son_of_flubber wrote:
From "Gliding International", May-June 2013, page 57, paragraph 3



"It is not commonly known that there have been three known Lithium batteries (sic) fires within an airborne sailplane producing two fatalities."


And a couple of pages later there's a brief article extolling the virtues of helium for restoring old gelcoat attributed, of all people, to Tom Knauff.. Oh, and a full page ad for that idiotic VTOL electric pipe dream from Joby. Was this to be a special April 1 issue?

Okay, so no one bats 1000. But the unsourced FUD on batteries is particularly annoying.

T8