Showing posts with label planes. Show all posts
Showing posts with label planes. Show all posts

Saturday, 10 August 2019

Moving into Electric?

Cars, planes and Boats!

Norway has become a leader in this new conception, while many who started the trend such as Tesla are going out with financial costs running to high. Many countries claim to have something to develop in the area, but it will be some time before we see a real all electric powered vehicle, rather than a battery operated one?

Battery is not bad but the technology for it has not changed much in the last one hundred years so apart from solar and alternative energies we will just have to wait and see is there really any alternative to fossil fuels even in the near future!

We do not get to hear to much of what is going on in the developing world when it come to this type of technology and what breakthroughs that they have made with alternatives to fossil extraction fuels!

Friday, 9 March 2012

Flying Boats. Part-One.

It does not look like our love of the flying boat is quite over yet. 

Russian Beriev Be-200, and Canadian Canadair CL-215/415 families and many other aircraft are capable of being fitted out with floats. These machines will continue to provide a good service in far flung places. The Be-200 is reported to be a good fire fighting machine and the Irkutsk factory has been able to offer several variants of this modern jet powered vehicle. 

But what new developments and concepts are for the future and what have we learned from what we have to what we can do.