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Rolls-Royce Claims Its All-Electric Plane With the Clunky Name Is the World’s Fastest
Rolls-Royce has announced that its all-electric plane, dubbed the “Spirit of Innovation,” is the fastest of its kind in the world after it reached a maximum speed of 387.4 mph (623 k/h) in recent flight tests. (gizmodo.com) Ещё...
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Ho hum another worthless electric plane that wont do any work. When they will do something worthwhile then its something. So far all of them that were supposed to do great things fell too short of any capacity or range.
The only way we'll have electric aircraft capable of replacing Jet-A in commercial aircraft will be if we ever get compact fusion generators to make the electricity on the fly... that'd mean everyone flying around with something that could blow up a small town on board, but even fictional, petrol-free societies have this risk (how many shuttlecraft had reactors failures on Star Trek and light up like a nova?).
