Its flight range of about 1,000 miles put much of India within reach of Pakistan's nuclear warheads.
This gives it a flight range of 15,700 km, or enough juice to fly non-stop from Dallas to Sydney.
But battery power still provides a poor power-to-weight ratio compared with conventional engines, with a consequent loss of flight range.
The Viva's electric engine pack, including batteries and wiring, weighs about 110 kilograms, or 240 pounds, and provides a flight range of about 250 kilometers, or 155 miles.
He urged the company to come up with an alternative route because the journey of four hours and 22 minutes was the same length as the plane's maximum flight range.
Though turkeys have a limited flight range, one could have flown over the Harlem River from the Bronx and made its way across town to the Hudson, Mr. McAdams said.
The use of 757s on trans-Atlantic flights was recently made possible by so-called blended winglets -- new devices on wings that reduce drag, increase fuel efficiency and boost flight range.
Insulated from the world at large, concentrated into the flight range of a colony of bees, my notes for my book Bee Journal accumulated as a counterspirit to everything I read of gaiacide: nature as the site of crisis.
Every morning between seven and eight, the Grant's Tomb birds and the Viaducters take off for Westchester, and the Metropolitan birds make for L. I. Their object is food, and their flight range is 15-20 miles.
On top of that, the F-35 could be too sophisticated for minor conflicts, and its relatively short flight range could be a problem as the Pentagon changes its view of possible threats.
With a flight range of two to three miles, the insects do the rest.
