To: 04-Bravo; 1FASTGLOCK45; 1stFreedom; 2ndDivisionVet; 2sheds; 60Gunner; 6AL-4V; A.A. Cunningham; ...
Aviation Ping!....................
2 posted on
05/06/2026 7:45:53 PM PDT by
Red Badger
(Iryna Zarutska, May 22, 2002 Kyiv, Ukraine – August 22, 2025 Charlotte, North Carolina Say her name)
To: Red Badger
235 HP for those more familiar with equine units.
3 posted on
05/06/2026 7:54:34 PM PDT by
KarlInOhio
(If the Islamic Republic government is in power in Iran when the war is over, we will have lost.)
To: Red Badger
Sounds good/interesting power to engine weight wise...my Q’s would be how many batteries needed for say a 5 hour flight at 80% power and the total weight of those batteries compared with the weight of enough avgas for the same 5 hour flight in say an aircraft fitted with a Continental “IO-360” (similar horsepower).
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Continental_IO-360
5 posted on
05/06/2026 8:03:54 PM PDT by
Drago
(.)
To: Red Badger
I’m a huge fan of hybrid cars.
Surely a hybrid GA aircraft would be feasible?
I don’t think all electric aircraft (EA) are feasible, just as I don’t think EVs are feasible, in the long run.
And, I am pretty sure that the life cycle economic cost of EVs and EAs is not being properly evaluated or “scored.”
14 posted on
05/06/2026 8:40:58 PM PDT by
Taxman
(We will never be a truly free people so long as we have the income tax and the IRS. )
To: Red Badger
Lithium batteries in a general aviation airplane.
What could go worng?
17 posted on
05/06/2026 10:47:01 PM PDT by
Ol' Dan Tucker
(Beauty may be only skin-deep, but ugly goes clear to the bone. -- Unknown)
To: All
The motor is the easy part.
Making it spin long enough to get you somewhere; that’s the hard part.
To: Red Badger
I’d never get near one...
21 posted on
05/07/2026 3:05:39 AM PDT by
maddog55
(The only thing systemic in America is the left's hatred of it!)
To: Red Badger
the zero-emission,Not an outright lie, but certainly an obfuscation. The electric motor might be zero emission, but the power system certainly isn't. Unless the battery gets recharged by unicorn flatulence.
24 posted on
05/07/2026 7:22:57 AM PDT by
PAR35
To: Red Badger
235 H.P makes VW owners proud.
26 posted on
05/07/2026 7:41:25 AM PDT by
Vaduz
(NEVER TRUST A DEMOCRAT)
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