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World's First Manned Plane on Dry Cell Batteries

 
Greg Ponesse
Greg Ponesse
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Will there be a point in the future where air travel no longer has to rely on high fuel costs or wind to get from point A to point B?  Lets learn how the first manned plane on dry cell batteries took flight.

A propeller aircraft took to the air while powered by nothing more than commercial dry-cell batteries this past July. The flight was the fruit of a joint project by Matsushita Electric Industrial Co. and undergraduates at the Tokyo Institute of Technology. The group successfully completed a test flight in which the plane stayed airborne for 59 seconds and traveled 391 meters, exceeding by more than 100 meters the distance flown by the Wright brothers in the world's first manned flight in 1903. (web-japan.org)


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