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Re:The little tech firm gunning for an airspeed record by helsinkiandrew on Tuesday July 20, 2021 @06:12AM (#27891885)
> Electroflight's aircraft will need to sustain almost all of that power output for its entire record-breaking run - around eight minutes.

I'm sure this will be an amazing achievement but it seems to be a lot of effort for something that isn't that important - the problem with electric aircraft is endurance rather than top speed. The article seems to acknowledge that at the end:

> "For longer flights we are going to need hydrogen or alternative green fuels for a long time yet.

Re:The little tech firm gunning for an airspeed record by octopaulus on Tuesday July 20, 2021 @06:37AM (#27892095)
Not sure what you're trying to say? Light, dense and very powerful electric powetrains need to keep evolving. As we've seen there are very good use cases today for fully electric passenger planes, even for short flights and very good uses case for hybrid planes as well. It's the paramount aspect of electrification, it draws attention, saves weight and reduces costs exactly like battery tech innovations. The reality is that take off is very power intensive as well as other parts of flight. It's very very important.