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peterdsharpe an hour ago

> Largest Electric Aircraft

"Largest" is just straight-up a false claim. [Solar Impulse](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_Impulse) and [Helios](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AeroVironment_Helios_Prototype...) were electric and had over double the wingspan, just to name a few of the ~dozen examples.

Heart's engineers should be proud of this genuinely impressive accomplishment, but they need to rein in whoever is writing their PR pieces.

red75prime an hour ago | parent | next [-]

I guess it's the largest by its useful load.

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ramesh31 an hour ago | parent | prev [-]

>"Largest" is just straight-up a false claim.

Largest in terms of takeoff weight. Wingspan is a pretty meaningless metric for "largest aircraft". By that logic the planes you linked are larger than a 737.

peterdsharpe an hour ago | parent [-]

There is a word for that. It is "heaviest", not "largest".

hersko an hour ago | parent [-]

It's largest based on length and mass as well. Why only look at wingspan/width?