Big Buzz For $60,000 Electric Flight Prize 78
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from the lightning-powered dept.
from the lightning-powered dept.
gilgsn writes "Electric Light Sport Aircraft are sprouting up all over. Now that the Experimental Aircraft Association is offering a 60,000 prize for the best ones, manufacturers are gearing up for the competition to be held the last week in July, at AirVenture 2011 in Oshkosh, 'The World's Greatest Aviation Celebration.' Airplanes will be tested for endurance, speed and time-to-climb. Pilots, charge up your batteries.."
The best design will have: (Score:3, Interesting)
Switched reluctance motors and Toshiba SCiB batteries.
As of today, there is no way to do it better.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Switched_reluctance_motor [wikipedia.org]
http://www.toshiba.com/ind/product_display.jsp?id1=821 [toshiba.com]
Just sayin'