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Originally Posted by TiltonBB
Interesting!
The floats look a little short for landing in rough water.
I would be interested to see how high it will go. It looks like it may only operate in ground effect.
I have a lot of questions: price, duration of a battery charge.
Time will tell
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Excellent questions.
Not to be too much of a naysayer, but I'm guessing it's an incredibly low flight time (30 minutes?) followed by a charge of several hours. A Nissan Leaf battery weighs 660 lbs to roll a small car about 80 miles. But the Kitty Hawk weighs only 220 lbs total--maybe 100 lbs of battery? And the strain to lift and fly 400lbs (including pilot) has to be HUGE (I leave that to the forum's engineers).