Couldn’t one walk that distance faster?
Ain’t getting on that thing,
Let the “math is racist” crowd ride on them.
16 days?! I can drive in a day.
really bad solution to a nonexistent problem
way to go!
Where do you get all the electricity?
I didn’t know they had cords that long...
"Plausible" is NOT a synonym for "practical."
I see a good market for quiet military surveillance and MAYBE there's another market for urban short-haul trips. Urban VTOL/STOL with reliable and accurate collision avoidance and nav could change how you think about weekend jaunts or where you want to live. I had a most interesting discussion with the CEO of Aska a year ago on potential applications. He envisions people from the SF Bay Area living in the foothills of the Sierras and commuting to work in their aircraft.
Flying Car Manufacturer Aska Nabs FAA Flight Test Signoff
Aska’s A5—a car, eVTOL, fixed-wing glider hybrid—received the FAA's blessing to proceed with expanded flight testing.
By Jack Daleo
June 30, 2023
Aviation Week keeps touting electric airplanes. However, despite the hype, there are two fatal flaws with this technology: range and turnaround time.
Not economically viable. I don’t think this one goes anywhere.
Rubber band power is best
They have finally accepted the fact that the “Peak Oil” scam/scare they have been trying to run on us for years hasn’t worked.
So they are pushing their fake “Climate Change” scam in its place.
They can get back to us with an update on their electric airliners when a fully loaded electric powered Airbus A380 completes its first transoceanic flight.
I have several hand planes and two electric powered planes. All are great woodworking tools.
I’M SHOCKED! SHOCKED I TELL YA’! but I do wonder what happens on a rainy, cloudy day. or week. a 16 day journey becomes slower than a westbound wagon train. and just as many deaths I fear.
Where are these idiots going to get all the electricity from? There are 8 million new foreign xenoidiots charging their cellphones since Biden rose to power.
What this idiot doesn’t seem to realize is that there’s already been an all-electric, solar-powered airplane that circumnavigated the planet — flying 25,000 miles — in 2018.
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/innovation/inside-first-solar-powered-flight-around-world-180968000/
Electric motors make perfect sense in propeller-driven airplanes because big propellers are more efficient than small propellers. But you need LOTS of torque (not horsepower) to spin a big blade with LOTS of pitch (so tip speed remains clear of the speed of sound), and that’s where electric motors shine, because they make maximum torque at ANY AND ALL RPMs.
What DOESN’T make sense is electric storage batteries. Better off with something like hydrogen fuel cells. If they were spending just a fraction of the money they’ve blown on exotic electric storage batteries to develop better HFCs, we’d already have HFC-powered transportation ready for the mass market.