George Bye, the developer a two-seat solar-electric trainer called the Sun Flyer, said yesterday that the airplane will fly with a touchscreen cockpit from Avidyne based around the all-important assumptions that the avionics be bright enough to read in full sunlight but not so powerful that they drain the batteries down to nothing.
Bye is the CEO of Aero Electric Aircraft Corp., a Nevada firm that is taking a composite aircraft design pioneered in Germany by a company called PC Aero and improving it in a bid to bring to market a practical all-electric airplane for the training and recreational markets.
