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    Trump Suggests Planes Can’t Fly When It’s Not Sunny

    Battery and aviation experts were flummoxed by his recent assertions about electric aircraft, which are not yet in widespread use.
    by John Hendrickson Jul 02, 2024 3 minutes
    Source: Anna Moneymaker / Getty

    At a campaign rally in Virginia last week, former President Donald Trump expressed concern that battery-powered airplanes wouldn’t fly in cloudy conditions. Trump, the presumptive Republican nominee for president, apparently believes that batteries of the sort that could power airplanes would be dependent on solar energy. Aviation experts agree that no airplane would be, or could be, flown that relied solely on solar power to stay airborne.

    In an extended, extemporaneous aside during a speech in which he (it stands at 3 percent), and falsely asserted that rioters in Portland, Oregon; Minneapolis; and Seattle had been “ripping people apart and killing people” after the murder of George Floyd, Trump said, of green-energy advocates, “All they know is electric. They want electric army tanks. They want electric planes.” Trump then looked up to the sky.

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