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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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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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Thanks. Some time ago I read about small nuclear reactors that are that small, they fit in and fuel a plane. The risk of a crash though..

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Heh, ya. Small risk there. You know the US gov't experimented with a flying nuclear reactor, right? I think they put it in a B36 or something. Not sure it ever actually flew, but they know it could have.