{"id":696,"date":"2010-03-01T11:25:58","date_gmt":"2010-03-01T18:25:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cafe.foundation\/blog\/?p=696"},"modified":"2010-03-01T11:27:10","modified_gmt":"2010-03-01T18:27:10","slug":"a-manned-swift-takes-flight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cafe.foundation\/blog\/a-manned-swift-takes-flight\/","title":{"rendered":"A Manned Swift Takes Flight"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"E-SWIFT!\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/I7Ri4yJokSE?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>Dr. Steve Morris is President of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.spyplanes.com\">MLB Co<\/a>., an enterprise specializing in low-cost, compact, remotely piloted and autonomous\u00a0aerial surveillance, mapping\u00a0and\u00a0monitoring systems.\u00a0 On December 23, 2009, he and his associates test flew\u00a0their first\u00a0man-carrying,\u00a0directly-piloted craft &#8211; an electric one.<\/p>\n<p>Pilot Brian Porter made two flights totalling about 20 minutes in a part 103 ultralight Swift hang glider to which was attached a custom-built pilot\/powerplant\/landing gear module.\u00a0 Power was by a Randall Fisher-supplied ElectraFlyer motor coupled to a reduction system built by Dr.\u00a0 Morris and his associates at MLB.<\/p>\n<p>Despite limitation imposed by the motor controller&#8217;s maximum current and propeller efficiency limited to 65-75 percent, the airplane demonstrated performance within 10 percent of calculations.\u00a0 Its rate of climb was 335 feet per minute, maximum\u00a0level flight speed\u00a0was 60 miles per hour, and it cruised on 4.6 kW.\u00a0\u00a0Duration, range, rate of climb, and lift:drag\u00a0are expected to improve when a pilot fairing streamlines the very open cockpit on the current version.<\/p>\n<p>Dr. Morris will present his paper on these early experiments at the CAFE Foundation&#8217;s Fourth Annual Electric Aircraft Symposium &#8211; all the more reason to attend. <\/p>\n<div id=\"facebook_like\"><iframe src=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/plugins\/like.php?href=http%3A%2F%2Fcafe.foundation%2Fblog%2Fa-manned-swift-takes-flight%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>Dr. Steve Morris is President of MLB Co., an enterprise specializing in low-cost, compact, remotely piloted and autonomous\u00a0aerial surveillance, mapping\u00a0and\u00a0monitoring systems.\u00a0 On December 23, 2009, he and his associates test flew\u00a0their first\u00a0man-carrying,\u00a0directly-piloted craft &#8211; an electric one. 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