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Old June 6th 07, 02:46 PM posted to rec.aviation.piloting
Larry Dighera
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Default ENvironmentally Friendly Inter City Aircraft powered by Fuel Cells

On Wed, 06 Jun 2007 10:22:28 GMT, kontiki
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Larry Dighera wrote:

Here's a project for those who are complaining about aircraft noise to
support:


EU BACKS FUEL CELL AIRCRAFT BID

The European Union has given Polytechnic of Turin, Italy, and its
11 partners about $6 million to install fuel cells and electric
motors in a variety of two-place aircraft to show it can be done.


Well for SIX MILLION dollars, it better be able to be done.

Anybody can throw money at a problem and eventually come up
with something that works. In the end, it has to be cost
effective, useful and practical.



Often the cost of developing a prototype exceeds the cost of the
production product.