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Main Forums => The Roundtable => Topic started by: Preacherman on July 20, 2006, 04:38:07 PM
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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?"
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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.
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