The title says it all! Do we have any pilots in here?

Reason why I brought it up, is that I just finished booking our transportation in the Philippines for our holiday, and really one of the only decent ways to get to and from our desired destination is by charter... And I am stoked! I haven't ridden in a Cessna 172 since I was just a kid in Air Cadets! Heck, I even completed ground school back then. Wanted to be an air force pilot someday! Unfortunately medical restrictions and bad eyesight kept me out... (Hehe... Funny now, as I've had my eyes blasted with laser beams and my vision is now 20/15 in both eyes... lol).

Anyway, I still love playing with my flight simulator from time to time, and when I saw THIS site, I though to myself: WICKED!

This Slovenian company makes the first, commercially available self-launching ELECTRIC sailpane (since Feb. 2011)... It retails for just under $125,000.... You take off under electric prop power, then at altitude, you retract the prop and glide!

They also make hybrid planes... Can anyone say Air-Prius? Their Pantera looks SICK!

Anyway.... Check it out, you guys! The video gallery just makes me drool!

I'd LOVE to work for this company...

http://www.pipistrel.si


Oh yeah... In my enthusiasm I forgot to make the connection here... So I was looking on Wikipedia to check which model of C172 we'd be flying in, when I noticed some news that Cessna was working on an all-electric prototype... Wiki then linked to a page containing some info about electric aircraft in general, and from that page I noticed the link to Pipistrel.