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07/17/2006

World's First Battery-Powered Plane

The world's first battery-powered plane took flight today in Japan. Powered by 160 AA "Oxyride" batteries , it "soared five meters (16 feet) above the ground at a private airport owned by Honda Motor Co.".
"This was officially the world's first manned flight powered by dry-cell batteries, in the second test the plane soared two meters above ground and flew some 400 meters almost independently," Zushi said
[via TheRawFeed - Yahoo]

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