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Monty replied to the thread New Alice Starts Taxi Testing.Sigh. -
Monty replied to the thread New Alice Starts Taxi Testing.Oh, and ask any of them about reserves.....energy density that is orders of magnitude worse really impacts this requirement. If you have...
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Monty replied to the thread New Alice Starts Taxi Testing.Do you really think you can charge batteries faster than fill a fuel tank practically??? really?
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Monty replied to the thread New Alice Starts Taxi Testing.I'm not sure exactly what you are talking about here. I work with batteries and fuel.
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Monty replied to the thread New Alice Starts Taxi Testing.I'll also say this about the original design of this aircraft. It's much more insidious than a graphic designer...The design was...
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Monty replied to the thread New Alice Starts Taxi Testing.Breguet Range Equation does not care how the aircraft is powered. Apparently none of the electric aviation enthusiasts know about this...
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And if batteries don't improve much, an awful lot of money has gone down the drain. These guys aren't the Wright Brothers, who didn't...
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Monty replied to the thread New Alice Starts Taxi Testing.I was recently at an expo involving electric flight. These people don't even understand how airplanes work. One company in particular...
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Monty replied to the thread New Alice Starts Taxi Testing.Uhhh....I'm intimately involved in startups. There is a lot of dumb money, and most of it seems to find it's way into the aviation space...
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Wish it was. As the tailwheel was just about to touch down I hit a rough place in the grass runway and it balanced and came back down...
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Monty replied to the thread Turbocharged engine options for a 2 seater - what would you consider?.Not that rich for a boosted engine. I don't think it's about cooling in a liquid cooled engine, it's about detonation margin on boost...
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Monty replied to the thread What happened to the Smith Miniplane DSA-1 ??.Word has it the Smith Miniplane lands so hot and blind, no one can find it anymore.
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Monty replied to the thread Cowl Exit Streamlining.Ejectors/Augmentors usually help ground and climb cooling, but hurt top speed. There are several good NACA papers out there. A fairing...
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Monty replied to the thread New Alice Starts Taxi Testing.Not enough elevator authority to rotate until 300 mph....
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Monty replied to the thread New Alice Starts Taxi Testing.That doesn't have anything to do with the Htail.....and the props are just as likely to fail as any other prop. Controllers fail too...
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