https://www.heraldtribune.com/story/news/2020/08/10/sarasota-test-pilot-pushes-the-limits-of-solar-powered-aircraft/3317540001/ The Right Stuff: Sarasota test pilot pushing the envelope of solar flight 10 Aug 2020 ... a solar-powered, single-engine airplane whose cartoonish 81-foot wingspan is laden with photovoltaic batteries ... solar flight will “inevitably” create commercial demand, he says. Sarasota's Miguel Iturmendi takes a break beside the SolarStratos electric plane ... to demonstrate the potential of solar energy ... https://www.gannett-cdn.com/presto/2020/08/07/NSHT/2112f641-3b31-452e-94c8-967bcf23a32c-stratos8.jpg
+ (MagniX progress w/ Cessna-Caravan & DHC-2 Beaver e-versions) https://www.ainonline.com/aviation-news/air-transport/2020-08-10/magnix-sees-regional-operators-electric-aviation-pioneers MagniX Sees Regional Operators as Electric Aviation Pioneers August 10, 2020 MagniX has reported further progress with flight testing of its proposed electric versions of the Cessna Caravan and DHC-2 Beaver utility aircraft ... it is not seeking to provide propulsion for new eVTOL aircraft because it doesn’t see the strong commercial case for scaling down its Magni250 and -500 motors, which currently offer continuous power of 280 and 560 kW, respectively. Many eVTOL aircraft designs require multiple electric motors, each with power of around 40 or 50 kW ... https://www.ainonline.com/sites/ainonline.com/files/styles/ain30_fullwidth_large/public/uploads/2020/08/ecaravan_taxi8.jpg?itok=B-fZjLLN×tamp=1597063577 For EVLN EV-newswire posts view: http://www.evdl.org/archive/ https://mail-archive.com/[email protected]/maillist.html {brucedp.neocities.org} -- Sent from: http://electric-vehicle-discussion-list.413529.n4.nabble.com/ _______________________________________________ UNSUBSCRIBE: http://www.evdl.org/help/index.html#usub ARCHIVE: http://www.evdl.org/archive/index.html INFO: http://lists.evdl.org/listinfo.cgi/ev-evdl.org Please discuss EV drag racing at NEDRA (http://groups.yahoo.com/group/NEDRA)
