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Old 17th Feb 2018, 11:30
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Deltasierra010
 
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Even Elon Musk hasn't been bold enough to promote electric passenger flying and the likely reason is the Laws of Physics. Here on planet earth we have things like gravity and wind resistance to cope with and a vehicle is never going to sustain long periods of motion from battery power alone, particularly at high speed.
To do that will need an entirely new and yet unknown power source,
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