Battery-Powered Plane Taxis, Set To Fly Soon

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."

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Let me get this striaght...

[evilviper]

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."