New electric engine improves safety of light aircraft

Re:New electric engine improves safety of light aircraft by pwnna on Monday July 06, 2015 @12:43PM (#9840361)

Usually when landing you want something like 110% of your stall speed, which means that you're not "crashing" (by which I mean stalling). This involves some sort of engine power.

I am not aware of any plane that lands without power outside of an emergency.

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Re:New electric engine improves safety of light aircraft by RealCasually on Monday July 06, 2015 @01:44PM (#9840845)

Staying above stall speed in a descent does not require any power. It is extremely common to perform a "power off" landing in a small plane, and these are often not in emergency cases.

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Re:New electric engine improves safety of light aircraft by phillc73 on Monday July 06, 2015 @01:03PM (#9840526)

Apart from all those thousands of sailplanes people fly every week. They land without power, and very few of those landings would be an emergency.

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Re:New electric engine improves safety of light aircraft by pwnna on Monday July 06, 2015 @04:08PM (#9841858)

Yeah that is correct, I was more thinking of commercial flights rather than sailplanes/gliders

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