NASA Designs All-Electric Personal Flight Vehicle

MikeChino writes "NASA is currently working on a personal aircraft that will put jet packs to shame. The Puffin is an all-electric one-man airplane that could be the start of some new and amazing air travel technology. With two prop electric engines, lithium phosphate batteries and a top speed of almost 300 mph, the vertical take off and landing vehicle was originally designed for covert military insertions because it has a lower heat signature than combustion engines. The Puffin would also be super quiet – 10 times quieter than current low-noise helicopters, and since the engine is electric it has no flight ceiling and can fly up to 9,150 meters high, uninhibited by thin air."

Comments

Re:"No flight ceiling"

[Khyber]

Typical /. bullshit.

Those that have scaled Everest are the people that set the standard.

If this story can't compensate for that, fuck citations - go back to school.

Re:"No flight ceiling"

[rts008]

polar red [citation needed]

You have not heard of google, or wikipedia? Where have you been for the past few years, you lazy, incompetent fscker?

By your /. UID, I suspect you have been frequenting digg or 4chan for the past few years instead of /....get with the program, you lazy fsck!