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Electric maned airplane
Morgans wrote: Check this news story bout about an airplane powered by household batteries. Interesting. http://reuters.myway.com/article/200...-PLANE-DC.html -- Jim in NC Cool. Too bad there's no pictures of it. BTW, the people in RAH might be interested also. Monk |
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Morgans schrieb:
Check this news story bout about an airplane powered by household batteries. Interesting. Not as interesting as you might think. Electric planes which you can actually buy have been around for quite some time, and they fly more than 1283 feet, albeit on lithium accus rather than household batteries: http://www.lange-flugzeugbau.de/engl.../menu-prod.htm Stefan |
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The group from the Tokyo Institute of Technology
flew the plane a distance of 1,283 feet... [on] the trip, which lasted about one minute. The power was provided by 160 AA batteries. Let's see, to go six hundred miles, that would be about 2600 x 160 = 416,000 batteries. That would clean out my local Radio Shack. Jose -- The monkey turns the crank and thinks he's making the music. for Email, make the obvious change in the address. |
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"Morgans" wrote in message ... "Stefan" wrote Not as interesting as you might think. Electric planes which you can actually buy have been around for quite some time, and they fly more than 1283 feet, albeit on lithium accus rather than household batteries: http://www.lange-flugzeugbau.de/engl.../menu-prod.htm I was unable to find on that, or on linked pages, that it had flown as a rise off the ground airplane. -- Jim in NC It has flown. It can climb about 10,000 feet on one battery charge or cruise about 100 miles. |
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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.) Stefan |
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Morgans schrieb:
How much for a new battery pack? 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. Stefan |
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Check this news story bout about an airplane powered by household batteries.
Interesting. http://reuters.myway.com/article/200...-PLANE-DC.html -- Jim in NC |
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Morgans schrieb:
Not as bad as I thought it would be. How is the rate of climb, with no thermal assist? http://www.lange-flugzeugbau.de/engl...u/menu-akt.htm |
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Morgans schrieb:
Not as bad as I thought it would be. How is the rate of climb, with no thermal assist? http://www.lange-flugzeugbau.de/engl...es/techdat.htm |
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"Stefan" wrote Not as interesting as you might think. Electric planes which you can actually buy have been around for quite some time, and they fly more than 1283 feet, albeit on lithium accus rather than household batteries: http://www.lange-flugzeugbau.de/engl.../menu-prod.htm I was unable to find on that, or on linked pages, that it had flown as a rise off the ground airplane. -- Jim in NC |
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