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Forum: Private Flying

9th Dec 2015, 08:28

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What will recreational flying be like in a few decades?

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Posted By Romeo Tango

Synthetic oil (or cheap "natural" oil) is all...

Synthetic oil (or cheap "natural" oil) is all very well but you still have to put it through a horrible dirty, unreliable, inefficient, heavy, IC engine. At the moment oil is the obvious thing to use...

Forum: Private Flying

8th Dec 2015, 15:58

Replies: 120

What will recreational flying be like in a few decades?

Views: 15,465

Posted By Romeo Tango

The trouble is the energy is not there to collect...

The trouble is the energy is not there to collect so no amount of new technology will help.

Of course there is straight mass conversion to energy (e=Mc^2) but if we find a way of doing that all...

Forum: Private Flying

8th Dec 2015, 15:27

Replies: 120

What will recreational flying be like in a few decades?

Views: 15,465

Posted By Romeo Tango

Sorry but thunderstorm/static power will not...

Sorry but thunderstorm/static power will not work. There are not enough thunderstorms, the lightning is difficult/impossible to collect and the static electricity floating about would provide...

Forum: Private Flying

8th Dec 2015, 15:11

Replies: 120

What will recreational flying be like in a few decades?

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Posted By Romeo Tango

All these electrically powered assumptions do...

All these electrically powered assumptions do depend on battery performance 10x that of today. That may happen next January or never.

Lots of people are working on it, there is no physical law...

Forum: Private Flying

7th Dec 2015, 15:26

Replies: 120

What will recreational flying be like in a few decades?

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Posted By Romeo Tango

There will have to be some sort of infrastructure...

There will have to be some sort of infrastructure for electric cars whether it is big connections to the grid or battery swap service .... maybe light aviation will be able to tag onto that.

Also...

Forum: Private Flying

7th Dec 2015, 09:43

Replies: 120

What will recreational flying be like in a few decades?

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Posted By Romeo Tango

Luckily many airfields have large areas they can...

Luckily many airfields have large areas they can cover with solar cells .....

Aviation may become the greenest method of transport

Forum: Private Flying

6th Dec 2015, 17:25

Replies: 120

What will recreational flying be like in a few decades?

Views: 15,465

Posted By Romeo Tango

The E-Fan goes at 100Kts for 1 hour using 30KWH...

The E-Fan goes at 100Kts for 1 hour using 30KWH so 200KWH should last 6.7 hours at 100 kts or 3.3 hours at 140Kts. Only just enough for any serious use.

So if our new wonderplane has 200KWH...

Forum: Private Flying

6th Dec 2015, 12:10

Replies: 120

What will recreational flying be like in a few decades?

Views: 15,465

Posted By Romeo Tango

I am optimistic that battery technology will...

I am optimistic that battery technology will confound the treehuggers. Though I have never liked those who relax and say "the scientists will sort it" I really think that it is not unreasonable to...

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