NASA Designs All-Electric Personal Flight Vehicle

Posted by samzenpus on Wednesday January 20, 2010 @02:36PM from the touch-the-sky dept.

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."

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One-man! by Catmeat · 2010-01-20 22:19 · Score: 0, Troll

The Puffin is an all-electric one-man airplane
So are only men allowed to fly them? Or does the technology require the pilot insert a weiner into something to get it to work; thus making it impossibly to fly for those who are weinerless.
- Catmeat (weinerless hang-glider pilot)