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All electric engine plane wins 1.35 million $ prize

submitted by deathcow

1 decade 3 years ago

It can travel 200 miles at 100 mph, consuming about a 1/2 gallon fuel equivalent per person on board.

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awesome, but I want to see it fly

I want to see it land, sitting on the side of a plane would surely be quite a lot rougher with an uneven landing than a regular plane.

Moving this video to deathcow's personal queue. It failed to receive enough votes to get sifted up to the front page within 2 days.

dag

Comment hidden because you are ignoring dag.(show it anyway)

Pretty awesome. I wonder why they don't plaster it with solar panels for an extra boost.

>> ^dag:

Pretty awesome. I wonder why they don't plaster it with solar panels for an extra boost.

I was wondering that too. Perhaps they wanted to keep costs and build time down, or maybe its as simple as Solar Panels simply adding more weight than the additional batteries they had to carry. It was only a 2hr flight afterall.

Tags for this video have been changed from 'plane, electric, efficient, flying, nasa prize, million, dollar' to 'plane, electric, efficient, flying, nasa prize, million, dollar, pipistrel, taurus' - edited by kulpims

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