Electric Plane Wows NASA: Wins $1.35 Million

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www.nbcbayarea.com/news/tech/Electric-Plane-Wows-NASA-131038118.html

The winning aircraft featured a dual-fuselage design, ultralight 75-foot wingspan and a 6.5-foot-wide propeller powered by 450 pounds of lithium-polymer batteries.

Just wait til someone improperly charges that thing! can you imagine 450 LiPo batteries exploding?

This is pretty impressive. Says it flew 200 miles, at 100 mph. Used 1/2 gallon of gas per passenger (looks like 2). I'd like to know more about it, and what does it use gas for? Does the engine charge the batteries?

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Well, maybe it holds 4?



www.uasvision.com/2011/08/29/worlds-first-all-electric-4-seater/

Unveiled at the Oshkosh Airventure event this summer, Pipistrel’s new, twin-fuselage, 75-foot wingspan plane is powered by only a 145-kilowatt brushless electric motor mounted, very non-traditionally, between two passenger pods.

“The Taurus G4 NASA Racer is a technology demonstrator,” explained Tine Tomažič, leader of the Pipistrel G4 development team. “It is the first-ever electric four-place aircraft.”

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Looks like two gliders with a electric motor joining them!!
n if its electric why have gas?
Its not quite electric if it uses gas in any sort of way if u ask me!
:-)