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Rolls-Royce, Airbus, Siemens tease electric flight engine project

scarper

Re: Advantages

>> The other option is to have enough battery capacity to allow flight to an emergency landing site (you don't need anything like full power for that).

> Unless of course, the plane misses the threshold and needs a go around.

And this is worse than a jet gliding into the airport, you're saying ?

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