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Should be a real snooze. I bet door to door accounting for recharge time a kid on a 1977 Motobecane moped would win.
Should be a real snooze. I bet door to door accounting for recharge time a kid on a 1977 Motobecane moped would win.
Kudos to the NAA for encouraging in this fashion new aviation technology in its infancy. Easy to diss from our comfortable armchairs. Its craziness is surpassed only by early 20th century air races across remote areas of the world in which people died not only from air crashes but also from exposure to atmospheric elements and hostile human environments post aircraft engine failures etc. We have those early daredevils to thank for airmail. The naysayers of that era are long gone irrelevant only to give way to this era’s naysayers.
The real race is to see who actually gets to the starting line!
“zero-emission electric propulsion”. How can it be assured that no coal or gas was used in producing the electricity–or can anyone calculate the energy and emissions used in producing and distributing the electric power of the solar, wind, hydro power, or nuclear generating plants and distribution? How about the “zero emissions” in producing the batteries? Those of us who were in the military used to call “pretending that something is something else” a “REACH-AROUND.” For those not familiar, Google it on Wiktionary.
"The winner will be determined by “the fastest speed calculated from the cumulative flight time, not including time on the ground for maintenance, charging, or overnight stays.
In other words, the winner isn’t the vehicle with the shortest FLIGHT time–it may be marked in CALENDAR time!
I don’t understand why the ground time doesn’t count. Should be that somebody fires a starting pistol, and we see who gets to the finish line first. That’s how most races work.