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Old October 19th 10, 12:05 AM posted to rec.aviation.piloting
Mark
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Default Why are turbos rare?

On Oct 18, 1:37*pm, wrote:
Mark wrote:
On Oct 17, 9:36*pm, wrote:
Mark wrote:
Because electric airplanes are soon to
replace the fossil fueled redneck planes.


If by soon you mean maybe in 50 years or so.


http://energysavinggadgets.net/world...-airplane/2009....


Oh, wow, a single place airplane that can fly for all of 2 hours.


Whoopee.


It will fly for 20 hours by using the proven battery
technology which has already been developed at
the Univ. of Maryland. The "self-assembly" prevalent
with nanoengineering was achieved with the M13
tobacco virus, creating an energy density ten times
that of a lithium ion battery.


You mean it will fly powered by a breathless press release and doesn't
need a battery that is actually in production?


You mean it should be kept a secret until they
carry it at Walmart? (cause you keep implying this)

Guess you don't know what proof of concept means.

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