Honda Aircraft
Honda announced at Oshkosh that they will begin production of a small (7-seat) jet.
That front end look so…um…Coot-like! And that wing-root looks so sponson-like.
Maybe they should consider an Amphibian version!
July 25, 2006
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July 17, 2006
Battery Powered Flight
Perhaps the technology is not quite Coot ready, but the world’s first battery operated plane flew on Sunday.
It traveled 391.4 meters.
The plane, created by a project team from the Tokyo Institute of Technology (T.I.T.) and Matsushita Electrical Industrial Co., was powered by 160 dry-cell batteries of the type normally purchased in stores.
A later flight given a push-start continued for 269.3 meters powered by just 96 batteries.
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