• ORbituary@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    1 hour ago

    This article is idiotic.

    $5 cost. 25,000 pounds. BUT OVER WHAT FUCKING DISTANCE?

    $5 gets me 23 miles in my Delica. It gets me 100 miles on my motorcycle. It gets me 30 miles in my Porsche 914. But the article says nothing about distance.

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      19 minutes ago

      Literally the first sentence:

      The first flight of the largest battery-electric aircraft to take to the skies lasted nearly half an hour while costing just $5 of electricity.

      Can your Porsche 914 fly for half an hour on $5 of fuel ?

    • Deebster@infosec.pub
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      1 hour ago

      I’m guessing it mostly flew in circles, since it’s a test flight that happened “at Plattsburgh International Airport” instead of between two locations. 27 minute flight, whatever that’s worth.