From: Dhu on Gate <campbell@neotext.ca>
Newsgroups: can.politics
Subject: Re: First Heavy All Electric Airliner Put Into Commission!
Date: Wed, 13 Aug 2025 19:46:54 -0000 (UTC)
Organization: A noiseless patient Spider
On Tue, 12 Aug 2025 14:42:08 -0700, Alan wrote:
> On 2025-08-12 13:13, Dhu on Gate wrote:
>> On Sun, 10 Aug 2025 12:52:03 -0700, Alan wrote:
>>
>>>>
>>>> LOL
>>>>
>>>> Per person and battery weight prevents ANY "mass passenger" electric
>>>> plane.
>>>
>>> And yet Joby Aviation is setting up air taxi operations right now.
>>
>> It's a greenwash gimmick to ferry media richoids about in front of the ROU...
>> Beautiful Folks doing "Their Thang" to save the Planet...
>
> It's a very useful solution for people who have more money than time...
>
> ...and there are lots of those who aren't "richoids".
>
>> They'll prob'ly
>> need to have swappable battery caches available to every ride.
> Which is why an air taxi service is a perfect use case.
Flyin' Bombs, then.
Kerosene is *much* safer and less toxic too.
Dhu
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