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I can fly 1000km with batteries alone too... Just take a glider, fly it along thermals all day and night, and keep a watch battery in your pocket while you do

I can fly 1000km with batteries alone too... Just take a glider, fly it along thermals all day and night, and keep a watch battery in your pocket while you do so. The longest continuous glider flight is over 3000km by the way. The difference is gliders are slow. This electric plane will also be slow because it is half way to a glider.

audunw 3y ago
Slower is OK if it’s faster than land based transport and can use local regional airports. Some electric planes are much more quiet when taking off. They can also be cheaper to operate. They will probably enter markets where you might drive 10-30m to a local airport and fly directly to another local airport near your destination. Rather than driving an hour to a large international airport. Norway is a perfect example of a good market. It has a large network of small local airports. The main issue for them is operating costs. Given the geography it’ll almost always be faster to fly, even if the plane is slower, but it’s often expensive. And having noisy planes taking off right next to small towns every hour would be annoying.