Comments on: Cri-Cri: The World’s Smallest Electric Plane Takes Flight

By: curious1

curious1 — Sun, 14 Nov 2010 20:40:37 +0000

It’s a miracle that it leaves the ground with such small horsepower. What is the horsepower of each electric motor ? It can’t be more than a quarter HP per motor for a total of one HP.
Let’s be generous and say the total HP is two. That would be pushing the limits on the motor size as it appears to be about 4″ in diameter (compared to the pilot’s head dimension). Maybe they use large hidden rubber bands to back up the electric power.

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By: mudshark12

mudshark12 — Thu, 09 Sep 2010 05:46:14 +0000

What an amazing airplane! Zero CO2 emission, practically noiseless as well as very stylish. I’m very impressed and hope they can come up with a longer range version some day soon,

By: mkass

mkass — Wed, 08 Sep 2010 21:26:13 +0000

This is a very cool concept. Hopefully this sort of technology will start to be more widely available. It would be great to have the flying motorcycle concept as an electric: http://organicconnectmag.com/wp/2009/06/traffic-problems-try-a-flying-motorcycle/