February 13, 20215 yr 21 hours ago, martin-w said: If anyone wants me, I'm in my shed. And I'll be asleep, dreaming up fantastical new ideas for beamed microwave power. 😂 Edited February 13, 20215 yr by stans My computer: ABS Gladiator Gaming PC featuring an Intel 10700F CPU, EVGA CLC-240 AIO cooler (dead fans replaced with Noctua fans), Asus Tuf Gaming B460M Plus motherboard, 16GB DDR4-3000 RAM, 1 TB NVMe SSD, EVGA RTX3070 FTW3 video card, dead EVGA 750 watt power supply replaced with Antec 900 watt PSU.
February 14, 20215 yr Author 9 hours ago, Paul Deluca said: Alice Eviation has an electric plane in the works. Yep, glad you mentioned them. Actually, it's the other way around, the companies name is Eviation, and the aircraft is called Alice. They were due for the test flight in the later half of 2020 but the prototype suffered a fire. Should be soon though. Seats nine passengers and two crew and has a range of 1000 kilometres, very impressive for an electric aircraft. It actually went through a design change, previously it was a nose wheel design but now it's a tail dragger. I presume they switched to a tail dragger to protect the rear pusher prop. https://www.eviation.co/ They've secured plenty of orders already.
February 16, 20215 yr Author On 2/14/2021 at 4:50 PM, Paul Deluca said: Thanks for correcting me. Shame about the fire really, or it would already have had its test flight. Apparently it was caused by a ground based battery system that was being used to rigorously test the aircraft. So it seems it wasn't related to the battery pack of the aircraft itself. However, it certainly will be a good thing when we have solid state batteries available for aircraft and cars, to pretty much eliminate the fire risk.
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