{"id":6392,"date":"2012-07-26T16:50:39","date_gmt":"2012-07-26T23:50:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cafe.foundation\/blog\/?p=6392"},"modified":"2012-07-26T16:51:34","modified_gmt":"2012-07-26T23:51:34","slug":"fastest-electric-airplane-emergency-landing-yet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cafe.foundation\/blog\/fastest-electric-airplane-emergency-landing-yet\/","title":{"rendered":"Fastest Electric Airplane Emergency Landing Yet"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Chip Yates is used to going fast, having obtained a private pilots certificate in a mere two months, and test flying an electric Long-Eze conversion (Long-ESA) within two weeks of that, but he didn&#8217;t count on making the world&#8217;s fastest electric aircraft emergency landing during a record-breaking speed run at Inyokern, California&#8217;s desert airport on July 19. With only 58 hours in his log book, Chip managed to make the runway for a bumpy but great touchdown &#8211; a great landing being one following which you can reuse the airplane.\u00a0 We&#8217;ve reported that event already, but Chip just released a great video of\u00a0the white-knuckle event.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Full Video! World&#039;s Fastest Electric Airplane Flight and Deadstick Landing!\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/rNAPLxZtoPg?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>To help document his record 202.6 mph flight, Chip&#8217;s airplane was well instrumented, carried several cameras, and had a chase plane to provide eye-witness oversight.<\/p>\n<p>In the two months he and fabrication partner Chris Parker of CPR Fabrication converted a Long-Eze into the world&#8217;s most powerful electric airplane (258 horsepower &#8211; 58 more than Green Flight Challenge winner, Pipistrel&#8217;s G4).<\/p>\n<p>Chip will speak Friday, July 27th at 10:30am at AirVenture\u00a02012\u00a0in the Innovation Hangar South, and then deliver a full-length technical presentation in the afternoon at 1:00pm in the Innovation Hangar South to review on-board telemetry and data from the record-setting flight. He&#8217;ll be able to enlighten anticipated crowds on the dead cell that shortened his base leg and forced an early turn to final.<\/p>\n<p>After that, he&#8217;ll be back to Inyokern and more than likely go after speed and altitude records for electric aircraft while preparing for his planned <a href=\"www.FLIGHTOFTHECENTURY.com \">tran-Atlantic flight in 2014<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div id=\"facebook_like\"><iframe src=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/plugins\/like.php?href=http%3A%2F%2Fcafe.foundation%2Fblog%2Ffastest-electric-airplane-emergency-landing-yet%2F&amp;layout=standard&amp;show_faces=true&amp;width=500&amp;action=like&amp;font=segoe+ui&amp;colorscheme=light&amp;height=80\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" style=\"border:none; overflow:hidden; width:500px; height:80px;\" allowTransparency=\"true\"><\/iframe><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chip Yates is used to going fast, having obtained a private pilots certificate in a mere two months, and test flying an electric Long-Eze conversion (Long-ESA) within two weeks of that, but he didn&#8217;t count on making the world&#8217;s fastest electric aircraft emergency landing during a record-breaking speed run at Inyokern, California&#8217;s desert airport on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,3,14],"tags":[2551,2343,99,2601,2568,2346,2602,2603,2344],"class_list":["post-6392","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-electric_powerplants","category-gfc","category-sustainable_ga","tag-airventure-2012","tag-chip-yates","tag-green-flight-challenge","tag-innovation-hangar-south","tag-inyokern-airport","tag-long-esa","tag-long-eze","tag-pipistrel-g","tag-the-flight-of-the-century"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.7 - 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