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9 AUG 06: ELECTRIC POWER

A ONE-man aircraft powered by 160 AA batteries took off and flew for 59 seconds last month, reaching a height of 16ft above the runway. "I was careful at takeoff as it was very difficult," said pilot Tomohiro Kamiya, a senior member at the Tokyo Institute of Technology.

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