Comments on: Tiny Electric Plane Sets Records at Paris Air Show http://cleantechnica.com/2011/07/06/tiny-electric-plane-sets-records-at-paris-air-show/ Clean Tech News & Views: Solar Energy News. Wind Energy News. EV News. & More. Tue, 30 Dec 2014 03:07:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=4.0.1 By: euroflycars http://cleantechnica.com/2011/07/06/tiny-electric-plane-sets-records-at-paris-air-show/#comment-101730 Fri, 08 Jul 2011 20:31:00 +0000 http://cleantechnica.com/?p=28743#comment-101730 While the press has largely echoed Solar Impulse’s flight at bicycle speed, the tiny and superfast electric CriCri seems to have been blacked out by the mass media.

Normal, since Big Oil and the automotive lobbies don’t like to see the motor car threatened by electric individual aeromobility.

Yet the future of individual mobility is the electric mini-car for urban traffic, and the electric ULM aircraft for intercity travel, i.e. individual mobility with zero footprint on landscapes, and almost noiseless at that!

The electric CriCri is yet just a forerunner because the personal aircraft of the future will have to be of the VERTOL (Vertical Take-Off and Landing) type – and fully automatic by the way, which is why it will be a public transport vehicle as well – with the only concept eligible for this purpose being a rotary-wing aircraft.

I bet that in a not too far future, kids will be sent to school in tiny personal, automatic, electric, mini-ULM VERTOL rotary-wing aircraft… and thereby travel even more safely than in mother’s SUV today.

Birds and insects fly since hundreds of millions of years – man got airborne just since little more than a century, how pityful! You believe an A-380 or an F/A-18 is the ultimate in aviation? They’re just dinosaurs, not even as evolved as bats!

Genuine human aviation is still an embryon – the future of mankind is in the air!

]]> By: Anonymous http://cleantechnica.com/2011/07/06/tiny-electric-plane-sets-records-at-paris-air-show/#comment-101675 Wed, 06 Jul 2011 18:51:00 +0000 http://cleantechnica.com/?p=28743#comment-101675 Try turning the carbon-fiber fuselage of the plane into an ultracapacitor. Then add conformal photovoltaics.

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