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[Grace Cangialosi]

Umm...Roger, I was actually kidding! It was just amusing to hear that someone's flight was canceled because a plane's batteries were dead! 

> On Nov 2, 2015, at 5:57 PM, Roger Stokes <roger.stokes65 at btinternet.com> wrote:
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>> On 02/11/2015 21:30, Grace Cangialosi wrote:
>> Planes run on BATTERIES??? I've never liked flying very much anyway, but now....
> 
> There are batteries to keep systems going.  Normally they are charged by the engines but if a system is not switched off then the batteries will go flat. The battery also provides power for starting the engines, just as it does in a car.  Having systems draw their power from the battery means that the battery stabilises the coltage for the electrical equipment.
> 
> Roger