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General Topics => Chatter Zone => Topic started by: anwar on June 27, 2013, 03:44:44 PM

Title: Pulling off another Charles Lindbergh
Post by: anwar on June 27, 2013, 03:44:44 PM
Crossing the Atlantic in an electric plane !

http://www.wired.com/autopia/2013/06/chip-yates/
Title: Re: Pulling off another Charles Lindbergh
Post by: RCNeil21 on June 27, 2013, 04:22:47 PM
Just Awesome
I thought he would make a whole new efficient battery chemistry capable of holding twice the power of our usual ones. ;D
That would have been better for us :) . Electric drone refuling a plane is a somewhat odd but nice idea.
Title: Re: Pulling off another Charles Lindbergh
Post by: lastRites on June 27, 2013, 11:41:36 PM
There are already better batteries for us.. ;)
http://vimeo.com/ferdinandkickinger
Title: Re: Pulling off another Charles Lindbergh
Post by: sanjayrai55 on June 28, 2013, 06:40:41 AM
Anwar: Solar Panels on the wings? Charge and run during daylight, discharge and run during darkness. Need a pretty big wing though, although at high altitude the solar energy flux is higher