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Chris Yates Wants to Fly an Electric Plane to Paris

Watch those batteries...

Chip Yates has created both the world’s fastest electric motorcycle and the world’s fastest electric airplane, bloomberg.com reported yesterday.

And he is getting ready to turn years of self-funded research and development into a business, the news service added.

But not before realizing his ultimate aspiration: crossing the Atlantic in an electric-powered plane for the first time ever, with help of drones that will recharge his plane in mid-air.

For a video on Yates, his inventions and his plans to fly an electric plane from New York to Paris: http://kenallensforum.blogspot.com/

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