yeah, Feline, I am not a dinosaur and flew the latest and greatest fom 1971 until they made me quit.
I also had an engineering degree and fully understood all the workings of the aircraft systems, and the software. So I'll go with the best we have, but only after we fully undrstand the risks versus the perceived gain in performance or weight reduction or......
but how much bigger would a nickel-metal battery be? Would they have the space? Looks pretty size limited from the pics I have seen
Not much different in form factor or weight. Just look at the Prius. Ten pounds on that sucker is a lot of weight fraction compared to 100 pounds on a 787. Hell, just one obese SLF would wipe out the weight savings, ya think?
I like the latest and greatest ( not to be just "cool"), but we have to make engineering decisions and production decisions. Safety is paramount, as they say.
787 is an engineering marvel from aero to mechanical to..... In the long run it's the stuff that you take for granted that bites you. And we learned that back in 1981 with the Viper power supply and computer power supply.