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Man’s attempts to harness the use of electricity for his dream to fly go back to well before the 19th century. Until the 1990’s, due to battery weight and low energy, electricity could only remain a faithful accessory to piston aircraft, but with the arrival of lightweight construction materials, solar power, improved engines and the LiPo battery, the skies recently opened up to a whole fleet of electric aircraft around the world - from thumbnail insect-styled drones (UAVs) to stratospheric airships. About aviation’s third revolution (following heavier-than-air and turbojet), this book also outlines the diversity of future trends for electric aircraft in the 21st century.

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a monumental effort describing the whole of the field in ways I have never seen documented. - ByDanJohnson.com

Desmond has written what is certainly one of the most comprehensive histories of electric aviation and drones to date. ...[He] takes readers through an engaging time line of the development, use, and technological changes affecting electric airplanes and drones throughout the world. ...a highly readable scholarly history...highly recommended --Choice

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Kevin Desmond, a technology historian and biographer, lives near Bordeaux in southern France. Since 1976, he has published 27 books and 300-plus articles on the men and women innovators, often forgotten, behind the progress of transport and related subjects.

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