Attempts at electric powered flight date to well before the 19th century. Battery weight and low energy output made it impractical until the 1990s, when the advent of lightweight materials, more efficient solar power, improved engines and the Li-Po (lithium polymer) battery opened the skies to a wide variety of electric aircraft. The author describes the diverse designs of modern electric flying machines--from tiny insect-styled drones to stratospheric airships--and explores developing trends, including flying cars and passenger airliners.
Attempts at electric powered flight date to well before the 19th century. Battery weight and low energy output made it impractical until the 1990s, when the advent of lightweight materials, more efficient solar power, improved engines and the Li-Po (lithium polymer) battery opened the skies to a wide variety of electric aircraft. The author describes the diverse designs of modern electric flying machines--from tiny insect-styled drones to stratospheric airships--and explores developing trends, including flying cars and passenger airliners.
Kevin Desmond, a technology historian and biographer, lives near Bordeaux in southern France. Since 1976, he has published 33 books and 300-plus articles on the men and women innovators, often forgotten, behind the progress of transport and related subjects.
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Table of Contents Acknowledgments Foreword by Ivo Boscarol Preface One Origins Two If It Flies, It Must Be Electric! Three Electricity Goes to War Four The Aeromodelers Five "Here Comes the Sun" Six The Lithium Advantage Seven "H" Is for Hybrid, Hydrogen, Helium Eight Towards Commercialization Nine UAVs (Generation Gas) Ten UAVs (aka Drones) Go Electric Eleven Dronomania! Twelve Flying Cars Thirteen Into the Future Appendix A. The Birth of Drone Racing Appendix B. The Adventure of Solar Impulse Appendix C. Speed and Altitude Records Appendix D. Timeline of Notable Electric Aircraft Flights Chapter Notes Bibliography Index
Table of Contents Acknowledgments Foreword by Ivo Boscarol Preface One Origins Two If It Flies, It Must Be Electric! Three Electricity Goes to War Four The Aeromodelers Five "Here Comes the Sun" Six The Lithium Advantage Seven "H" Is for Hybrid, Hydrogen, Helium Eight Towards Commercialization Nine UAVs (Generation Gas) Ten UAVs (aka Drones) Go Electric Eleven Dronomania! Twelve Flying Cars Thirteen Into the Future Appendix A. The Birth of Drone Racing Appendix B. The Adventure of Solar Impulse Appendix C. Speed and Altitude Records Appendix D. Timeline of Notable Electric Aircraft Flights Chapter Notes Bibliography Index
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