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Thought this was a pretty realistic summary... IE, it was very well aware of current electric aircraft limitations with battery storage, weight, endurance, etc., but I was surprised to see so much activity in the GA space around electric planes
Needless to say the technology still has a long way to go, but I do wonder if 50 years from now we'll be in the same place as today with powerplants or if everything in GA will be electric (or turbine) and 100LL GA will be a thing of the past... I mean, lets be honest, not that much has changed with your run of the mill carbureted O320 and O360 powerplants since the 1960s/1970s
Needless to say the technology still has a long way to go, but I do wonder if 50 years from now we'll be in the same place as today with powerplants or if everything in GA will be electric (or turbine) and 100LL GA will be a thing of the past... I mean, lets be honest, not that much has changed with your run of the mill carbureted O320 and O360 powerplants since the 1960s/1970s