The Lipo Powered Airplane

In the near future (or today) it may be more efficient to put a small and simple electric motor and lipo (lithium polymer) batteries to an airplane than conventional fuel with a heavy internal combustion engine with reduction gears. Check the following video what can be done with a dedicated electric motor with lipo batteries.

Lipo battery powered paraglider.

Here are two links to LiPo battery guides:

http://exoaviation.webs.com/pdf_files/Lipo%20Battery%20Guide.pdf

http://exoaviation.webs.com/pdf_files/Lipo%20Battery%20Charging%20&%20Safety.pdf

An electric paraglider motor in England (Notice the small size of the motor and batteries).



Sonex has already tested this idea.

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