Electric maned airplane

"Flyingmonk" wrote

Cool. Too bad there's no pictures of it. BTW, the people in RAH might
be interested also.

Note the crosspost? g
--
Jim in NC

"Stefan" wrote in message
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Morgans schrieb:

I was unable to find on that, or on linked pages, that it had flown as
a
rise off the ground airplane.

Look at the videos. Or take my word. (There are two such beasts based on
my airfield.)

Cool.

How much for a new battery pack?
--
Jim in NC

"Stefan" wrote

Expected life of the battery pack is 11 years or 1500 cicles. After
that, they must be replaced. Right now, the pack costs around $8000 or
so, but I don't know how much it will be in 11 years.

Not as bad as I thought it would be. How is the rate of climb, with no
thermal assist?
--
Jim in NC

I didn't see the price anywhere. Got an approximate idea?

Pretty cool lookin' package!
--
Jim in NC

("Morgans" wrote)
Pretty cool lookin' package!


Huh? :-)


Montblack
http://snltranscripts.jt.org/88/88bnudebeach.phtml

In a previous article, "Morgans" said:
Check this news story bout about an airplane powered by household batteries.
Interesting.

http://reuters.myway.com/article/200...-PLANE-DC.html

Picture at http://inhome.rediff.com/money/2006/jul/17look.htm


--
Paul Tomblin http://xcski.com/blogs/pt/
For their next act, they'll no doubt be buying a firewall running under NT,
which makes about as much sense as building a prison out of meringue.
-- Tanuki

Hmmmmm ..... If I used half the weight of batteries for large coils and
then flew and navigated along the length of power lines, could I induce
enough current to keep me aloft?
Is this a new 'free' source of flight power (if the power companies
radiate the energy, how can it be theft?) .... a new navigation
activity (e.g. coast to coast) and a new definition of low level
airlanes?

;-)

Paul Tomblin wrote:

Picture at http://inhome.rediff.com/money/2006/jul/17look.htm



Just what I was looking for. Thanks Paul.

Man! That's a lot a ribs...

Monk

"steveukman" wrote in message
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Hmmmmm ..... If I used half the weight of batteries for large coils and
then flew and navigated along the length of power lines, could I induce
enough current to keep me aloft?
Is this a new 'free' source of flight power (if the power companies
radiate the energy, how can it be theft?) .... a new navigation
activity (e.g. coast to coast) and a new definition of low level
airlanes?

Energy is taken from the power lines that would not disappear otherwise, so
it would indeed be theft.

The size of the coils would be huge, and heavy. Sorry.
--
Jim in NC

Morgans schrieb:

I didn't see the price anywhere. Got an approximate idea?

Depends on many things, obviously, but somewhere in the range of
$150'000 to $200'000 with the trailer.

But you get much more than just an electrically powered aircraft for
this: Newest airfoil, newest wing shape, excellent finish, and a lot of
electronic gadgets. E.g. You will be informed of the battery charge
state by cell phone, you can start the pre-heating of the batteries
(required, depending on the weather) by cell phone, and a couple more
such things. Other solutions: The critical electric junctions are pyro
loaded, so in case of a short circuit you can cut them with the push on
a button to aviod heating and fire etc. BTW, all this is managed by a
computer running linux, so you can load your favorit flight simulator,
too, if you wish...

Stefan