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General control line discussion => Open Forum => Topic started by: Peter Germann on June 22, 2016, 07:39:38 AM

Title: Not C/L but historic anyway
Post by: Peter Germann on June 22, 2016, 07:39:38 AM

Check this to witness in realtime a bit of aeronautical history:

http://www.solarimpulse.com/widget-instruments

Title: Re: Not C/L but historic anyway
Post by: John Rist on June 23, 2016, 05:35:40 PM

Cool but not practical.  It has no payload capacity.  It's like our models the aircraft is the payload.

Title: Re: Not C/L but historic anyway
Post by: Bob Reeves on June 24, 2016, 06:16:36 AM

Wright brothers first flight would barely carry one person and look where we are now.

Title: Re: Not C/L but historic anyway
Post by: John Rist on June 24, 2016, 06:32:56 AM

Quote from: Bob Reeves on June 24, 2016, 06:16:36 AM

Wright brothers first flight would barely carry one person and look where we are now.

True but they were using nasty old gas.  Gas has a large amount of energy per pound.  The sun has only so much energy per sq ft.  On the environmental side of the discussion the batteries we use have some really nasty stuff in them.   S?P