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Sonex Electric Powered Flight, EAA AirVenture Oshkosh 2007

Video by Glenn Pew John Monnett describes his Electric powered Sonex aircraft and the goals behind his "e-Flight Initiative."  
 
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jerryaltman (2 months ago) Show Hide
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Even lithium baterry would not give a long autonomy to the plane.
gwheyduke (3 months ago) Show Hide
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Why don't you show it flying ? I was very dissapointed! Does it , in fact fly at all?
covingtonium (6 days ago) Show Hide
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no it doesnt fly its just modern art. ass.
Mastercorder (3 months ago) Show Hide
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That is a real neat little though and I think the electric is the future but the VW is for now and really cool !!!
Mastercorder (3 months ago) Show Hide
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Be interesting to see how that pack and motor perform when hot I have seen a many dc motor controllers burn out the control circuit that must be a big silicon rectifier !
MotorLab (4 months ago) Show Hide
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Has anyone flown one of these?
stevecoterell9 (7 months ago) Show Hide
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that thing runs on 4 AA batteries
danthemanzizzle (8 months ago) Show Hide
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if we could put pure electrons in a box the size of a cat 0.o we could power that plane for 10 to the power of one hundren trillion eons..... 0.o
freshyrocks (6 months ago) Show Hide
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But that's not how electricity works electrons aren't expended they just lose energy.
t850 (9 months ago) Show Hide
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almost like a big toy ......so simple

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