Hybrid Airplane
Hy-Bird
The “Hy-bird” by Lisa Airplanes, is a lightweight, hybrid plane made out of lightweight carbon fiber (common for newer airplane designs). Lithium-polymer batteries will provide the plane’s main power source and solar panels, covering the plane’s 20-meter-long wings, will provide additional power.
The design is remarkably like the Seawind 300, a Canadian seaplane that has been in development for over a decade.
Seawind
From Lisa-Airplanes:
The “Hy-Bird” project plans to fly around the world with a 100% clean electric airplane powered only by renewable energies: solar energy and hydrogen.
Indeed, photovoltaic cells affixed on the wing and on the horizontal tail will supply sufficient energy for the take off and for on-board power supply. Besides, a fuel cell will fuel the aircraft for cruise flight. An electric engine (more silent than heat engines) will propel Hy-Bird.
During summer 2008, Hy-Bird will become the first plane to fly around the world using only renewable energies, solar energy and hydrogen. This round-the-world, with stages of over 3000 km, aims to be a technological and ecological challenge, but also a human challenge.
A website dedicated to Hy-Bird is under construction.
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Via: Inhabitat
October 17th, 2009 at 8:28 pm
How much is the plane ?
October 24th, 2009 at 4:20 am
can we try to construct or build using Hobby aircraft with battery operate motor and solar panel.Advise me what is parts require.