Phil Brooks Posted September 6, 2010 Share Posted September 6, 2010 Anyone else spot this? http://www.flightglobal.com/articles/2010/09/03/346933/all-electric-eads-cri-cri-takes-to-the-skies.html Question is, is this smaller than TN's electric B50? after all, that's got four engines too! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John Privett Posted September 6, 2010 Share Posted September 6, 2010 Posted by Phil Brooks on 06/09/2010 22:48:44: Question is, is this smaller than TN's electric B50? after all, that's got four engines too! Quite possibly is smaller. The Cri-Cri is a tiny plane. There was mention a while ago in a magazine report of the show at La Ferté Alais of a scale R/C model of a Cri-Cri. As I recall it was almost full-scale, I think a figure of something like 97% scale was mentioned. (I don't know if making it 97% rather than 100% was to avoid some legal issues or what?) However, although the model was almost the same size as an actual Cri-Cri it was much lighter! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sparks59 Posted September 7, 2010 Share Posted September 7, 2010 It's surprising how much weight can be saved if one doesnt have to build the airframe and power train to accomodate around 80kg + of human body! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John Privett Posted September 7, 2010 Share Posted September 7, 2010 Very true! Not to mention the weight saving by not having the 80kg+ body too! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bill_B Posted September 11, 2010 Share Posted September 11, 2010 See here for a video...... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wRVVdYU1c0M Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KeithT Posted September 12, 2010 Share Posted September 12, 2010 I like it. Just remember to take a conversion plug with you when you fly the English channel for coffee... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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