Peter, Did you mean to say the *energy* problem, as in: limited range? Cor van de Water Chief Scientist Proxim Wireless
office +1 408 383 7626 Skype: cor_van_de_water XoIP +31 87 784 1130 private: cvandewater.info www.proxim.com This email message (including any attachments) contains confidential and proprietary information of Proxim Wireless Corporation. If you received this message in error, please delete it and notify the sender. Any unauthorized use, disclosure, distribution, or copying of any part of this message is prohibited. -----Original Message----- From: EV [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Peter C. Thompson via EV Sent: Sunday, March 22, 2015 9:04 AM To: Lee Hart; Electric Vehicle Discussion List Subject: Re: [EVDL] EVLN: 18 wing-motor NASA electric aircraft conceptr:200mi On 3/22/15 9:42 AM, Lee Hart via EV wrote: > brucedp5 via EV wrote: >> http://www.itproportal.com/2015/03/17/nasa-testing-electric-aircraft- >> wacky-design-concept/ >> >> NASA testing an all electric aircraft with wacky design concept > > Why does the author feel the need to put "wacky" in the title? The > wing in question looks very normal, and the range of 200 miles in fact > quite reasonable for an early test model. > Because it is different, and that scares him. Seriously, though, this is a very smart idea. You can pitch the props different for the different parts of the wing, you can even have some of the motors turn off entirely and have the prop feather away. Being able to use different power levels means the wings will be MUCH more difficult to stall. This idea has been thoroughly discussed on some of the airplane forums I read, and the consensus is that if they can work out the power problem (same problem we face with EVs), then this will work out really well. Cheers, Peter _______________________________________________ UNSUBSCRIBE: http://www.evdl.org/help/index.html#usub http://lists.evdl.org/listinfo.cgi/ev-evdl.org For EV drag racing discussion, please use NEDRA (http://groups.yahoo.com/group/NEDRA) _______________________________________________ UNSUBSCRIBE: http://www.evdl.org/help/index.html#usub http://lists.evdl.org/listinfo.cgi/ev-evdl.org For EV drag racing discussion, please use NEDRA (http://groups.yahoo.com/group/NEDRA)
