Australia's first electric aircraft has begun test flights
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#2The plane is a Pipistrel Alpha Electro [0]. Designed and built entirely in Slovenia. Kind of a weird/misleading article as it presents the plane as Australian.
Re: Australia's first electric aircraft has begun test flights
#3The plane is a Pipistrel Alpha Electro [0]. Designed and built entirely in Slovenia. Kind of a weird/misleading article as it presents the plane as Australian. [0] http://www.pipistrel.si/plane/alpha-electro/overview
Additionally I'm not sure I would call a 2 seater, a "passenger plane".
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#4I wonder if there'd be an increase or loss of carbon footprint compared to gas, when most of electricity produced in Australia is from coal?
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#5Article gives you the idea that it would be taking pax to Rottnest Island (a popular tourist destination) but it's only registered as a 'recreational' so the only ppl going to Rottnest would be pilots themselves or a non-paying pax.
Payload is 200kg so that is basically two people and one suitcase.
30 minutes reserve might be enough for short hops but I've just finished reading various articles written over the years by Richard Collins (who writes a lot about safety) and he states that he always had a hard rule of a one hour reserve.
Still, the operating costs are crazy cheap. If they made a plane that had 3 hours range (2 hrs flying, 1 hr reserve) at 100+ knots with more payload, I'd be interested.
Re: Australia's first electric aircraft has begun test flights
#6The plane is a Pipistrel Alpha Electro [0]. Designed and built entirely in Slovenia. Kind of a weird/misleading article as it presents the plane as Australian. [0] http://www.pipistrel.si/plane/alpha-electro/overview
Additionally I'm not sure I would call a 2 seater, a "passenger plane".
Then what would you call the person in the second seat, who isn't flying the plane?
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#7Re: Australia's first electric aircraft has begun test flights
#8Article gives you the idea that it would be taking pax to Rottnest Island (a popular tourist destination) but it's only registered as a 'recreational' so the only ppl going to Rottnest would be pilots themselves or a non-paying pax. Payload is 200kg so that is basically two people and one suitcase. 30 minutes reserve might be enough for short hops but I've just finished reading various articles written over the years…
Tesla is driving (heh) battery energy density up.