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Old 13th September 2011 | 21:45
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Linktrained
 
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Grity,

Thank you for your comment.

In sixty years there have been improvements in battery performance in terms of capacity and weight.

A battery powered Pitot/ Static system might have been invented by now, to go with the more modern GPS fitted gliders which already in THIS century have flown higher than FL50.0. Ask elsewhere about wing deicing ! ( I am out of touch.)
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