They claim a 100 mile range. I wonder if that includes a reserve.
“They claim a 100 mile range. I wonder if that includes a reserve.”
Yes. Discussed last week.
I think the reserve requirement that regular planes are required to maintain would result in a 0-mile range for the battery plane.
But that’s 100 miles before we mount the windmills on the wings to refuel in-flight!
There is an extension cord 200 miles long to recharge the batteries in flight, but it keeps getting tangled with ground clutter....
A distinct improvement would be a parachute mounted on the top of the plane, to be deployed when the batteries were almost fully drained, to float the plane down to a somewhat softened landing.
https://www.airspacemag.com/daily-planet/those-parachutes-small-airplanes-really-do-work-180969057/
A good landing is when you walk away after the plane gets on the ground. A great landing is when the plane can be used again.
“They claim a 100 mile range. I wonder if that includes a reserve”
Yeah like an internal combustion engine.