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General Category => General Discussion => Topic started by: Richard230 on July 22, 2018, 07:13:36 PM

Title: 10 electric aircraft
Post by: Richard230 on July 22, 2018, 07:13:36 PM

Here is an interesting video showing ten electric aircraft.  They are all kind of cool, but still have a way to go before they start carrying paying passengers.  I looks like we still need much better batteries to keep these things in the air for very long: 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=abtj87wAX0Q

Title: Re: 10 electric aircraft
Post by: Richard230 on July 24, 2018, 03:46:44 AM

The business section of my newspaper today, in an article written by Peter Holley of the Washington Post, reports that Rolls-Royce plans to build a battery-powered vertical take-off and landing aircraft as soon as the early 2020's.  It would have a 250 mph top speed and be able to carry five passengers a distance of 500 miles.  Upon reading this, I thought they must know more about future battery improvements than I do.  ;)