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These include weight shift aircraft, more commonly known as trikes, powered parachutes, and powered para-gliders.
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E Spyder Flightstar pictures, images of the
E Spyder Flightstar ultralight, experimental, lightsport aircraft.
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Jason Paur of Wired Magazine?s Autopia web
site reports on flying Tom Peghiny?s e-Spyder, a combination
of Tom?s Flightstar ultralight with a Yuneec motor,
controller and battery.
Paur?s impressions are highly positive, with the desire to
continue the experience. He notes, ?Flying on battery power
is about the unique experience of flying without the noise,
vibration and smells of a traditional engine pulling you
along. It?s an entirely different sensation. And like
gliding, it is about the challenge of flying within the
limitations of the aircraft and maximizing your time aloft.
??It?s like hypermiling a flight,? Peghiny says.?
Hypermiling in automobiles is the act of conserving fuel by
tactics such as accelerating gently to a speed somewhat
above the average desired, then coasting to a point below
that average and accelerating again.
Electric aircraft may require such tactics for at least the
immediate future until battery technology catches up with
our desire to fly with full afterburners. Indeed, one
attendee at the fourth annual Electric Aircraft Symposium
told this author that Yuneec representatives had advised
just such a careful approach on their E-430.
Paur sums up on a happy note. ?On the other hand, the
sensation you feel while flying is unlike anything you?ve
experienced. The sound is dominated by the air rushing by,
there is no smell of gas or exhaust and no buzzing vibration
being transmitted from the engine through the airframe.
?Flying so smoothly and quietly makes you
wish there were a bottomless battery available so you could
fly around all day.? |
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