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Given Boeing's inability to build a fully flying functional plane and Tesla's track record for spontaneous flames, I'm not quite ready to board one of these anytime soon.

Looks like [a few airlines are buying these](https://www.msn.com/en-us/travel/news/these-planes-are-battery-operated-will-that-fly/ar-AA124J6D). Given Boeing's inability to build a fully flying functional plane and Tesla's track record for spontaneous flames, I'm not quite ready to board one of these anytime soon.

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It is one thing to get the battery weight to roll on the ground. It is a completely different problem when you try to lift that weight off the ground. Unless there is a massively more powerful battery with significantly lower weight, electric flight will be the next fusion. Always 10 years away.

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Good point didn't even think about that.

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They have already had several solar charged electric powered flight demonstrators, if i recall one of them stayed aloft for over 24 hours.

Here is a 2016 flight that went around the world with stops at major airports. https://www.theatlantic.com/photo/2016/07/flying-around-the-world-in-a-solar-powered-plane/493085/

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Top speed is 85mph and it can only carry one person and costs 170 million dollars, a little less than halfway to the cost of a 747 which can carry hundreds of people at 500mph. Making it look even dumber, the record flight time for an unpowered glider is 70 hours. Im not sure why anyone even bothered to make a prototype.

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I didnt way it was anywhere near ready for any sort of commercial use. I was just pointing out how far the tech was 6 years ago...

Here is one 12 years ago that stayed aloft for 26 hours straight... https://www.nytimes.com/2010/07/09/world/europe/09plane.html

You only see one slim view of the air industry. You cant see why people do shit outside of cost, that is your shortcoming. Not others.

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Look up Peter Sripol.

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What does he do?

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He's home-built a few battery-powered airplanes (which he actually flew). They're not commercially viable, by any means, but they do demonstrate that battery-powered flight is possible. I found his videos entertaining.

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Absolutely not, in a gas plane if the engine goes out it turns into a glider; in battery powered engines there's a greater than zero chance the battery turns into thermite.

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I would think with battery powered, the plane turns into a large sinking weight carreening into the ground. Not like you can glide a plane when it weighs 4 times more than a standard one

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not for the first 10 years at least.

never buy anything in the first generation. 3rd is best. lesson i learned as a kid. used to ride quads/dirt bikes with friends and one buddy got a first generation raptor 700 right when they came out. well less than 500 miles on it and the gear box went, no warranty. shelled out a pretty penny to get it fixed. first generation and many times the second has kinks to work out, especially in the long run.

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No way. I hardly fly at all and probably won't ever again. Most pilots sold out and took the clot shot.

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My original comment was not related to this but this is a great point as well. When a pilot dies mid flight due to his poisonous jab I don't want to be on board.

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Ummmm....hell no.

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No. I work on planes. I know all the ways they can fuck up, but I also know all the redundancies.

Also, how fucking long would it take to charge those planes? Major passenger aircraft are almost never shut down. We're talking literally months without turning the power off. We're also talking about 1-4 hours in the air, and about 30-60 minutes groundtime. However, we're talking large aircraft here

Now lets talk about the plane above. It's talking about short flights. The two routes given are about 100-150 miles, with about 30 people. These wouldn't be round-the-clock flights. I'd wager that it'd be once in the morning, and once in the evening, which would be primarily for businessmen and resort-type things. Unfortunately, you'd still have to deal with the TSA, which would make it hard to treat it like a daily shuttle service.

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Never be the first one. The ginny pig.

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KEK! Tell that to the idiots who took the clot shot already. It's a one way ticket to death.

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Sure ill fly in a red plane a blue plane a green plane. Id fly it over a boat in a moat in the rain over a train.

But seriously do those actually even work? How far do they go 100 miles?

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Oh, I'm sure there will be a recharge plane following them around running on jet fuel. LOL.

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They have to pass the same regulations for flight and safety standards as any other plane. Millions of flight test hours.

So, yes.

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But if there's a climate "emergency", they'll get emergency authorization.

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That is a what if that has never happened. I can only deal within the present and the current state of regulations.

Since no pending legislation exists, no one is pushing for emergency use of electric planes that bypasses existing regulation and safety requirements, that's not something we have to worry about. Yet.

HOWEVER....you and I both know someone is going to try some stupid shit like that which is why you brought it up.

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Exactly. I was watching Boeing closely and read the FAA was allowing Boeing to sign off on their own inspections. Thus, the problems they had.

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I watched a video by a guy who is making a high displacement 6 cylinder for marine and aviation markets explain why he is after marine and aviation and not automotive and it's the same reason you wont be seeing electric planes. Batteries weigh a fucking ton and take up a lot of space compared to fuel.

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