Posted on 05/28/2020 11:36:48 AM PDT by RomanSoldier19
Up, Up and Away! World's largest all-electric aircraft takes to the skies for the first time making a 30-minute flight over Washington State
A single test pilot flew the all-electric aircraft over Moses Lake in Washington
MagniX have added their 750-watt electric motor to a Cessna Grand Caravan
It can seat up to nine people and required few changes to make it all electric
They hope to have a 100-mile range commercial version on sale in 2021
(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...
I haven’t seen the Owner’s Manual.
Pilot — “Attention all passengers...QUICKLY NOW plug in your phones, tablets, computers and power banks. We need your juice!”
What was your point? It would be the same for any owners manual or POH.
“FedEx switching to electric any time soon.”
They will for the “last mile.” But not for long-haul.
“What was your point? It would be the same for any owners manual or POH.”
This is not an official specification.
MagniX have added their 750-watt electric motor to a Cessna Grand Caravan
A one hp motor (746 watts =1 hp)? Does anyone realize how laughably insignificant that is?
“A one hp motor (746 watts =1 hp)? Does anyone realize how laughably insignificant that is?”
Obviously you didn’t read the article!
Well, I lived in Southern CA (Teslas are everywhere) and moved to the South where I know a few people who own Teslas and Hybrids.
You are not providing much information in your response. I infer you mean the article is not a specification. Ok, no disagreement. 100 mile range is still hardly useful from a practical sense, unless you want to tool around the local field. A caravan is an expensive way to do that. So again, what is your point of contention?
750 watt? That's approximately 1 horsepower. I call bullsh*t. I think they've got a couple of decimal points out of wack.
75,000 watt? 100 hp? I can believe that. 750? No. Absolutely not.
They will probably be pretty warm by the time they get you up that high.
Or you can put lightning rods on them and fly them into a thundercloud to get mid-air refueling.
Nine passenger, 260 knots, 650 mile range.
Estimated charge time 30 minutes. per flight hour.
Yup. First thing I noticed. After reading through 88 messages, you are the first person that I have found who also saw it.
Clearly they are not using a 1 hp motor to move this thing. They are also not using a 10 hp motor to move this thing. 75,000 watts, or 100 hp, I believe. They are off by two decimal points. I guess writers don't know anything nowadays and apparently they don't have editors either.
Harbor Air says you are wrong.
“Yup. First thing I noticed. After reading through 88 messages, you are the first person that I have found who also saw it.”
But not reading the article!
Can’t they just put a windmill on top of the plane and it’ll recharge the battery as it flies?
/rubegoldberg
“75,000 watt? 100 hp? I can believe that. 750? No. Absolutely not. “
I can believe that you did not read. the article!
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