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this thing will never get released, the big oil companies make up like 70% of the richest five companies in teh world, they wont let it happen. and seeing as they and banks own the US government, they gov wont let it happen either.

it wont happen = there will be no more innovation here.]]>Aug 9th 2008 8:53AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/08/09/current-conditions-favorable-for-electraflyer-cs-electric-fligh/http://www.engadget.com/2008/08/09/current-conditions-favorable-for-electraflyer-cs-electric-fligh/Aug 9th 2008 9:21AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/08/09/current-conditions-favorable-for-electraflyer-cs-electric-fligh/http://www.engadget.com/2008/08/09/current-conditions-favorable-for-electraflyer-cs-electric-fligh/Aug 9th 2008 10:13AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/08/09/current-conditions-favorable-for-electraflyer-cs-electric-fligh/http://www.engadget.com/2008/08/09/current-conditions-favorable-for-electraflyer-cs-electric-fligh/Aug 13th 2008 1:38PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/08/09/current-conditions-favorable-for-electraflyer-cs-electric-fligh/http://www.engadget.com/2008/08/09/current-conditions-favorable-for-electraflyer-cs-electric-fligh/Aug 9th 2008 12:39PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/08/09/current-conditions-favorable-for-electraflyer-cs-electric-fligh/http://www.engadget.com/2008/08/09/current-conditions-favorable-for-electraflyer-cs-electric-fligh/
By the way, I saw this page without comments. I'm probably not first, but just thought it'd be cool]]>Aug 9th 2008 8:50AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/08/09/current-conditions-favorable-for-electraflyer-cs-electric-fligh/http://www.engadget.com/2008/08/09/current-conditions-favorable-for-electraflyer-cs-electric-fligh/Aug 10th 2008 5:29AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/08/09/current-conditions-favorable-for-electraflyer-cs-electric-fligh/http://www.engadget.com/2008/08/09/current-conditions-favorable-for-electraflyer-cs-electric-fligh/Aug 9th 2008 9:05AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/08/09/current-conditions-favorable-for-electraflyer-cs-electric-fligh/http://www.engadget.com/2008/08/09/current-conditions-favorable-for-electraflyer-cs-electric-fligh/
This will never get off the ground (pun intended) simply because electric is unrealistic for air travel. Air travel needs the utmost reliability and plent of contingency. Thats just not available on current generation electric battery technology.]]>Aug 9th 2008 9:13AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/08/09/current-conditions-favorable-for-electraflyer-cs-electric-fligh/http://www.engadget.com/2008/08/09/current-conditions-favorable-for-electraflyer-cs-electric-fligh/Aug 9th 2008 9:22AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/08/09/current-conditions-favorable-for-electraflyer-cs-electric-fligh/http://www.engadget.com/2008/08/09/current-conditions-favorable-for-electraflyer-cs-electric-fligh/
Also, I really want to hear what this plane sounds like.]]>Aug 9th 2008 4:49PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/08/09/current-conditions-favorable-for-electraflyer-cs-electric-fligh/http://www.engadget.com/2008/08/09/current-conditions-favorable-for-electraflyer-cs-electric-fligh/Aug 9th 2008 5:08PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/08/09/current-conditions-favorable-for-electraflyer-cs-electric-fligh/http://www.engadget.com/2008/08/09/current-conditions-favorable-for-electraflyer-cs-electric-fligh/
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bRVQuuYUk6I&watch_response

Enjoy.]]>Aug 9th 2008 9:15AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/08/09/current-conditions-favorable-for-electraflyer-cs-electric-fligh/http://www.engadget.com/2008/08/09/current-conditions-favorable-for-electraflyer-cs-electric-fligh/Aug 9th 2008 9:28AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/08/09/current-conditions-favorable-for-electraflyer-cs-electric-fligh/http://www.engadget.com/2008/08/09/current-conditions-favorable-for-electraflyer-cs-electric-fligh/Aug 9th 2008 9:46AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/08/09/current-conditions-favorable-for-electraflyer-cs-electric-fligh/http://www.engadget.com/2008/08/09/current-conditions-favorable-for-electraflyer-cs-electric-fligh/
Do YOU want to fly a glider into the middle of a thunderstorm? Because I don't.]]>Aug 9th 2008 12:55PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/08/09/current-conditions-favorable-for-electraflyer-cs-electric-fligh/http://www.engadget.com/2008/08/09/current-conditions-favorable-for-electraflyer-cs-electric-fligh/Aug 9th 2008 1:21PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/08/09/current-conditions-favorable-for-electraflyer-cs-electric-fligh/http://www.engadget.com/2008/08/09/current-conditions-favorable-for-electraflyer-cs-electric-fligh/
*ahem* IPHONE]]>Aug 9th 2008 10:13AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/08/09/current-conditions-favorable-for-electraflyer-cs-electric-fligh/http://www.engadget.com/2008/08/09/current-conditions-favorable-for-electraflyer-cs-electric-fligh/
Was it good for you too? :D]]>Aug 9th 2008 11:24AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/08/09/current-conditions-favorable-for-electraflyer-cs-electric-fligh/http://www.engadget.com/2008/08/09/current-conditions-favorable-for-electraflyer-cs-electric-fligh/Aug 9th 2008 1:00PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/08/09/current-conditions-favorable-for-electraflyer-cs-electric-fligh/http://www.engadget.com/2008/08/09/current-conditions-favorable-for-electraflyer-cs-electric-fligh/Aug 9th 2008 1:23PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/08/09/current-conditions-favorable-for-electraflyer-cs-electric-fligh/http://www.engadget.com/2008/08/09/current-conditions-favorable-for-electraflyer-cs-electric-fligh/
I used a GPS in a boat long before they started putting maps on them, because it was still rather useful. We also had maps made of papers back then too ;)]]>Aug 9th 2008 4:37PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/08/09/current-conditions-favorable-for-electraflyer-cs-electric-fligh/http://www.engadget.com/2008/08/09/current-conditions-favorable-for-electraflyer-cs-electric-fligh/
Look, normally I don't point things like this out, but this is just ridiculous.

Oil companies make up 70% of teh [sic] richest companies in the world, eh?

I didn't think that it was that difficult to do percentages out of 5, but I suppose it is. Listen closely here. The percentages are as follows: 0, 20, 40, 60, 80, and then, of course, 100.]]>Aug 9th 2008 10:15AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/08/09/current-conditions-favorable-for-electraflyer-cs-electric-fligh/http://www.engadget.com/2008/08/09/current-conditions-favorable-for-electraflyer-cs-electric-fligh/Aug 9th 2008 10:58AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/08/09/current-conditions-favorable-for-electraflyer-cs-electric-fligh/http://www.engadget.com/2008/08/09/current-conditions-favorable-for-electraflyer-cs-electric-fligh/
50% of the time.]]>Aug 9th 2008 12:57PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/08/09/current-conditions-favorable-for-electraflyer-cs-electric-fligh/http://www.engadget.com/2008/08/09/current-conditions-favorable-for-electraflyer-cs-electric-fligh/
(in all honestly im just curious now to what you meant) ]]>Aug 9th 2008 1:29PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/08/09/current-conditions-favorable-for-electraflyer-cs-electric-fligh/http://www.engadget.com/2008/08/09/current-conditions-favorable-for-electraflyer-cs-electric-fligh/"the big oil companies make up like 70% of the richest five companies in teh world"

there are five companies. therefore, the oil companies can either be 0/5, 1/5, 2/5, 3/5, 4/5, or 5/5 of these "richest companies"

those percentages correspond to 0%, 20%, 40%, 60%, 80%, and 100%

not 70%.]]>Aug 9th 2008 3:35PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/08/09/current-conditions-favorable-for-electraflyer-cs-electric-fligh/http://www.engadget.com/2008/08/09/current-conditions-favorable-for-electraflyer-cs-electric-fligh/Aug 10th 2008 5:11AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/08/09/current-conditions-favorable-for-electraflyer-cs-electric-fligh/http://www.engadget.com/2008/08/09/current-conditions-favorable-for-electraflyer-cs-electric-fligh/worth of flight can carry 400 passengers from london to sydney...]]>Aug 9th 2008 10:35AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/08/09/current-conditions-favorable-for-electraflyer-cs-electric-fligh/http://www.engadget.com/2008/08/09/current-conditions-favorable-for-electraflyer-cs-electric-fligh/
One should remember also just how much more energy it would take to move a jet plane than it would take to move this thing. For instance, gliders of this speed usually move at exactly the same speeds that this was quoted as doing - average cruise of 60knots and max out at something over 100knots for normal use.

Finally, a 5.7kwh lithium ion battery is hardly environmentally friendly in itself, given the processes involved in the mining of the raw materials and the production and recycling.]]>Aug 9th 2008 10:53AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/08/09/current-conditions-favorable-for-electraflyer-cs-electric-fligh/http://www.engadget.com/2008/08/09/current-conditions-favorable-for-electraflyer-cs-electric-fligh/
Is it so hard to understand that even the first gas airplane wasn't a damn 747? It took DECADES to get to that step.]]>Aug 9th 2008 11:59AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/08/09/current-conditions-favorable-for-electraflyer-cs-electric-fligh/http://www.engadget.com/2008/08/09/current-conditions-favorable-for-electraflyer-cs-electric-fligh/Aug 9th 2008 1:02PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/08/09/current-conditions-favorable-for-electraflyer-cs-electric-fligh/http://www.engadget.com/2008/08/09/current-conditions-favorable-for-electraflyer-cs-electric-fligh/Aug 9th 2008 1:03PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/08/09/current-conditions-favorable-for-electraflyer-cs-electric-fligh/http://www.engadget.com/2008/08/09/current-conditions-favorable-for-electraflyer-cs-electric-fligh/Aug 9th 2008 1:14PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/08/09/current-conditions-favorable-for-electraflyer-cs-electric-fligh/http://www.engadget.com/2008/08/09/current-conditions-favorable-for-electraflyer-cs-electric-fligh/
I like the idea a lot and it is an impressive example how far we got (engine and battery wise). On top of this, if the economics behind that are corrects (about $9.10 per 1.5 hours of operation) this is actually quite cheap!

Looking forward to see how this stuff develops :)]]>Aug 9th 2008 2:05PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/08/09/current-conditions-favorable-for-electraflyer-cs-electric-fligh/http://www.engadget.com/2008/08/09/current-conditions-favorable-for-electraflyer-cs-electric-fligh/
Propellers' tips travel at transonic velocities, creating a pressure wave similar to a sonic boom on each rotation, so the propeller will sound like a propeller on a piston or turbofan engine. Still very noisy.]]>Aug 9th 2008 2:10PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/08/09/current-conditions-favorable-for-electraflyer-cs-electric-fligh/http://www.engadget.com/2008/08/09/current-conditions-favorable-for-electraflyer-cs-electric-fligh/Aug 9th 2008 2:11PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/08/09/current-conditions-favorable-for-electraflyer-cs-electric-fligh/http://www.engadget.com/2008/08/09/current-conditions-favorable-for-electraflyer-cs-electric-fligh/
Sorry RB, maybe you should edit your comment on this article - this plane wouldn't be silent, it would sound just like a regular prop a/c to the lay man.]]>Aug 9th 2008 8:46PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/08/09/current-conditions-favorable-for-electraflyer-cs-electric-fligh/http://www.engadget.com/2008/08/09/current-conditions-favorable-for-electraflyer-cs-electric-fligh/Aug 10th 2008 6:32PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/08/09/current-conditions-favorable-for-electraflyer-cs-electric-fligh/http://www.engadget.com/2008/08/09/current-conditions-favorable-for-electraflyer-cs-electric-fligh/
Let's thikn about this... ALL MODEL PLANES use LiPo because they're lighter, smaller, charge faster, etc. etc. etc. ....Physics are the same for planes of all sizes, this should use LiPo.

Aside from the fact that all model tweakers know LiPo is the way to go, the iPhone uses LiPo. ...And at this point, considering all the idiots out there, most people should just copy the iPhone without questioning it.]]>Aug 9th 2008 4:13PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/08/09/current-conditions-favorable-for-electraflyer-cs-electric-fligh/http://www.engadget.com/2008/08/09/current-conditions-favorable-for-electraflyer-cs-electric-fligh/Aug 9th 2008 4:52PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/08/09/current-conditions-favorable-for-electraflyer-cs-electric-fligh/http://www.engadget.com/2008/08/09/current-conditions-favorable-for-electraflyer-cs-electric-fligh/Aug 9th 2008 4:18PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/08/09/current-conditions-favorable-for-electraflyer-cs-electric-fligh/http://www.engadget.com/2008/08/09/current-conditions-favorable-for-electraflyer-cs-electric-fligh/Aug 9th 2008 4:31PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/08/09/current-conditions-favorable-for-electraflyer-cs-electric-fligh/http://www.engadget.com/2008/08/09/current-conditions-favorable-for-electraflyer-cs-electric-fligh/Aug 9th 2008 4:53PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/08/09/current-conditions-favorable-for-electraflyer-cs-electric-fligh/http://www.engadget.com/2008/08/09/current-conditions-favorable-for-electraflyer-cs-electric-fligh/Aug 9th 2008 7:07PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/08/09/current-conditions-favorable-for-electraflyer-cs-electric-fligh/http://www.engadget.com/2008/08/09/current-conditions-favorable-for-electraflyer-cs-electric-fligh/
I think I will wait till they start putting on something else like ion thrusters or something. For now all the comercial and industrial flights will be jet aircraft]]>Aug 9th 2008 6:05PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/08/09/current-conditions-favorable-for-electraflyer-cs-electric-fligh/http://www.engadget.com/2008/08/09/current-conditions-favorable-for-electraflyer-cs-electric-fligh/
I love where all this technology is going. I'm excited to see what will be happening in the next 5 years ;-)]]>Aug 10th 2008 2:58AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/08/09/current-conditions-favorable-for-electraflyer-cs-electric-fligh/http://www.engadget.com/2008/08/09/current-conditions-favorable-for-electraflyer-cs-electric-fligh/
I was going to post the same thing. With all that wing and body area, I would think flexible solar panels would extend the battery life considerably. Not to mention, in between flights it would sit there recharging itself in spades, so much so you could probably recharge your Tesla off it too :-)]]>Aug 10th 2008 2:34PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/08/09/current-conditions-favorable-for-electraflyer-cs-electric-fligh/http://www.engadget.com/2008/08/09/current-conditions-favorable-for-electraflyer-cs-electric-fligh/
Now they need to start adding panels from Nanosolar (www.nanosolar.com). I don't think they would effect the flight surface much (if at all) and they'd have the potential to add a good amount of flight time.

I love seeing more and more things like this. The technology is advancing by leaps and bounds and I can't wait to see what we'll have available in 5 or 10 years. :-)]]>Aug 10th 2008 3:09AM