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The E430 is a two-place high-wing composite aircraft is powered by a 40 kilowatt (approximately 54 horsepower) electric motor driven by a “three-pack” of lithium polymer batteries, all designed and manufactured by Yuneec.
Sustainable Design Update » Blog Archive » The Electric Airplane - Clean Green Air Transport 2009
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Finding out that Renzo Leoni would have flown a Caproni 133 triple-engine high-wing fighter-bomber during the Abyssinan War of 1935-36.
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In its report, the National Transportation Safety Board said United Flight 889 had just retracted its landing gear and was climbing past the end of the runway at about 1,100 feet in good weather when a controller alerted the crew about a high-wing Cessna 182 just a few hundred feet above.
Report Details Midair Close Call Andy Pasztor 2011
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The plane, produced from 1951 to 1967, is a single-engine, high-wing propeller plane designated as a short-takeoff-and-landing (STOL) utility transport.
Weather will determine when investigators can access plane crash site 2010
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The plane, produced from 1951 to 1967, is a single-engine, high-wing propeller plane designated as a short-takeoff-and-landing (STOL) utility transport.
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The plane, produced from 1951 to 1967, is a single-engine, high-wing propeller plane designated as a short-takeoff-and-landing (STOL) utility transport.
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The plane, produced from 1951 to 1967, is a single-engine, high-wing propeller plane designated as a short-takeoff-and-landing (STOL) utility transport.
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The plane, produced from 1951 to 1967, is a single-engine, high-wing propeller plane designated as a short-takeoff-and-landing (STOL) utility transport.
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The plane, produced from 1951 to 1967, is a single-engine, high-wing propeller plane designated as a short-takeoff-and-landing (STOL) utility transport.
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In 1994, an American Eagle commuter flight with a high-wing design similar to the Bombardier Q400 crashed in Roselawn, Ind., killing all 68 people aboard.
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