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bigdaddy writes "'WORCESTER - At 10:01 a.m. yesterday, Cary Dillman fastened her shoulder belts in the pilot's seat of a sleek twin-seat airplane, closed the cockpit canopy, and taxied into aviation history sounding - in her words - "like a sewing machine." Dillman was piloting the first conventional airplane powered by electricity.' How cool is that! Full details in this story."
that is a bunch of effing crap
fuel companies are suffering in this economy and we are looking for ways to completely kill them off, yeah that's pretty "cool", move to cuba or some other country if you want more of that sort of "cool", jeeez
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An airplane with 100 mile range, goes great with your car's 100 mile range, and your tax-payer paid for Ginger's 18 mile range.
Fortunately I doubt the public will get soaked for this ludicrous attempt. We already get soaked with special tax breaks and such for electric cars and its obvious Segways were only developed to be sold to Government. (who else would blow 8k on something with so little use except to haul overweight bureaucrats around?)
Batteries are a dead-end option for helping the environment. Far better to call them coal-fired future environmnetal hazards!
Amazing, we had a 100 mile range car in the late 20s or early 30s, are we just that stupid to keep going this route?
* Winners compare their achievements to their goals, losers compare theirs to that of others.
Okay, so this is newsworthy? They say that it hasn't flown yet, and will only fly for an hour when it does get going. Additionally, then mention that electric planes have already been made that have flown over the English Chanel, and such.
So... What is so exciting? It's like saying:
"Look I've got the first T.V.... No it's not the very first one, but it's the first working one with square-shaped knobs! And by the way, we don't know that it works yet."
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