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Supersonic VTOL electric jet
7 mentions on Hacker News by 1 person: 5 stories, 2 comments · first 2019-11-11 · latest 2021-07-23
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Here's a fairly in-depth analysis of supersonic electric VTOL aircraft: https://github.com/gusgordon/electric_jet tldr; they become "practical" with a battery specific energy of around 1500 Wh/kg. However, if you just want to do a…
comment by gusgordon · 2020-11-19 · in Supersonic Electric Flight -
…See these notebooks for details: https://github.com/gusgordon/atmosat/blob/master/atmosat.ipy... https://github.com/gusgordon/electric_jet/blob/master/plane.... [1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lift_(force)#Lift_coefficient
comment by gusgordon · 2019-11-11 · in Lithium-Sulfur Battery Project Aims to Double the Range of Electric Airplanes