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Title: First flight of battery-powered aircraft
Post by: Preacherman on July 20, 2006, 04:38:07 PM

A Japanese inventor has developed a plane powered by a few score AA batteries, and it recently made a successful test flight.  Video at:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/media/avdb/news_web/video/9012da68004b7e0/nb/09012da68004ba73_16x9_nb.asx

Most interesting!  Wonder if it comes with a built-in cellphone and GPS?  "Can you hear me now?"

Title: First flight of battery-powered aircraft
Post by: Art Eatman on July 21, 2006, 03:31:32 AM

Lotsa work has been done in Japan on ultra-small electric motors with startlingly large output for the size.

Some 20 years back, some guys in California (CalTechies?) built a solar-powered plane that flew.  Gossamer Condor?  I disremember, exactly, the name they gave it.

Art