Electric airplane takes to the skies

On Saturday June 20th at an Airfield North of Shanghai the Yuneec International E430 Electric aircraft took to the air for its second phase of test flights.

The E430 had 2 flights of around 15 minutes and did a series of basic test manoeuvres, a maximum height of 300m (975ft) was reached during the flights.

Take off was full power with the E430 lifting after around 80m at 65 Km/h. A climb rate of 7m/s was achieved during the second flight and the optimised level flying speed was 90km/h. Top speed achieved in level flight was 150km/hr and a low pass was done at full power to evaluate the noise.

Yuneecs company test pilot, Sun Xun (3,600hrs), was delighted with the way the E430 handled but commented that for him the most surprising feature is how quiet and smooth it is, even at full power during the low pass.

The E430 will now be shipped to the USA for test flying in the USA prior to its first public display on the Yuneec stand at the EAA AirVenture 2009 at Oshkosh.
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[ABGvision]

Price hasn't been released yet.

[Dabarda]

Beautifully quiet.

[Zoidborg1]

@ABGvision

they have pre-released a price of 89K for the e430 ready to fly, 1.5hrs per charge (1 pack Li-PO)

so much less maintenance this is a real money safer

[jeffersonironman]

Cool

[wallenp]

looks and sounds like a very large RC !

[cornishrob123]

Well done ,what a great sound from her

[DWTeamPilot]

Uh... So does this test pilot suck, or is there a strategy for attempting to rotate the plane three times...to finally get it go on the last attempt. As a pilot myself, the landing was good...but the take off left something to be desired. - RC

[TheHasanShow]

hopefully $2

[wtfbollos]

AWESOME!!!

[solrak1945]

It´s the future, congratulations.

Price?