Thursday, March 31, 2011

The Elektra One Electric Airplane




Considering the big move of getting all of our cars to be electric, I
guess it was only a matter of time before our planes went electric too.

NASA has recently sponsored a CAFE Green Flight Challenge, and this
Elektra One is the PC-Aero entry. The plane is a single-seater
aircraft, and it completed its main flight of 500 meters high and then
quickly landing, all on batteries. On its