“AVWeb readers against electric airplanes?”
Hi Brian,
Speaking only for myself: Against premature and optimistic claims of the virtues of electric aircraft. Electric -motor- technology is good and is here now. Electrical energy storage capacity: not so much. I’m eternally hopeful but, unless some miracle happens, lack of useful electrical storage capacity will keep pure elec-tech on the ground. Battery tech: Many years away.
I can make a three hour flight in my Piper Cub and arrive on short final with an hour of reserve energy in the tanks. Many/most fossil fuel aircraft have far better endurance than that.