Aviation's electric future

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This link from the Vintage Bonanzas Facebook page.

 

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[Deskpilot]

What a bloody dangerous power set up. Lose one of your wing tip motors for any reason and yo're in a spin drier.

 

 

[facthunter]

Having an engine right at the extremes of the tail wouldn't help either. nev

 

 

[turboplanner]

What a bloody dangerous power set up. Lose one of your wing tip motors for any reason and yo're in a spin drier.

And tail wheel configuration to submit passengers to all the old vagiaries of taxying in crosswinds.

 

This concept fits in the the electrica cars with radiators and autonomous vehicles with cabs and windscreens.

 

However, for now someone has managed to get it to fly.