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Electric airplane - recharged
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rpl wrote: Bill Daniels wrote: Take a look at this: http://www.electronista.com/articles...owire.battery/ OK, it's just a laboratory development and needs to work it's way through all the R&D to become an actual product. But, an order of magnetude improvement? WOW! Of course, as many 'negative experts' will point out, if this thing shorts out, your airplane goes supernova. However, if this thing works out, a 10 hour, 1000NM range electric airplane is actually possible. Bill Daniels I wonder why we haven't seen diesel/electric aircraft... surely a small round engine would allow for cleaner airflow and you can stick the diesel wherever you want to... something like the BD-5 wouldn't have transmission/driveshaft problems (though possibly a weight problem on such a small aircraft). As technology improves, replace the diesel with batteries or fuel cells while more or less retaining CG. And something like a V22, you might even be saving weight since you can drop the physical transmissions and driveshafts. Because the damn Diesel-electric setup: 1. weighs too damn much 2. Adds another potential inline failure mode 3. Reduces overall fuel efficiency. -- Remove _'s from email address to talk to me. |
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