Some students have succeeded in making a manned flight in a plane powered only by AA batteries. Anybody who has ever had a digital camera or other device that eats batteries will be amused by the mental image of taking off and landing every 100 yards or so. Here’s the story:
A manned aircraft powered by batteries flies at Okegawa Airport in Saitama, north of Tokyo July 16, 2006. REUTERS/Yuriko Nakao
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