Just a few years ago, RC aircraft were powered by either anemic brushed motors or gas. Quadcopters were rare. Now, with brushless motors, flying has never been easier, building electric longboards ...

Electric RC aircraft are not known for long flight times ... The airframe is a Phoenix 2400 motor glider, with a 2.4 m wingspan, powered by a 600 Kv brushless motor turning a 12 x 12 propeller.

But consider that the aircraft burned no fuel and emitted zero emissions. Instead, the plane used an all-electric motor powered by a single battery. Called the e-Genius and built by engineers at ...

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In hydrogen-powered aircraft, The idea is that the hydrogen is fed into a fuel cell that generates electricity that either charges battery banks or drives an electric motor directly. However ...

Narrator: What could a future with electric planes look like ... the first flight with an electric motor took off, but it only lasted less than 15 minutes. Then, in the 1980s, lithium-ion ...

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This all-electric airplane is flying the first commercial test flight of its kind It's a six-seater with no other fuel on board, the latest attempt to move some flights off of fossil fuels.

A technology pioneered by Benjamin Franklin is being revived to build more efficient electric motors, an effort in its nascent stage that has the potential to be massive. A handful of ...

In the simplest hybrid approach, planes use kerosene-powered gas turbines running side by side with electric motors. Sweden’s Heart Aerospace is developing a 30-passenger plane, the ES-30 ...

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