Category: Aircraft Electrification

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  Paper: Potential environmental benefits of a hybrid RAM turboprop

  5th Aug 2019

  A 2017 paper “Analysis and design of hybrid electric regional turboprop aircraft” investigates the potential environmental benefits of hybrid electric regional turboprop aircraft in terms

  Categories: Aircraft Electrification, More Electric Aircraft, Propulsion

  Tags: Parallel Hybrid

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  Structural batteries power a flight for twice as long

  7th May 2019

  A structural battery powered drone has almost doubled its endurance in recent flight tests. A news piece from Case Western Reserve University announces the successful

  Categories: Aircraft Electrification, Energy Storage, Structural Design

  Tags: Case Western Reserve University, Drone, Feb 2019, Structural Batteries

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  Why Electric Propulsion will be Disruptive for MRO

  26th Feb 2019

  Electric propulsion for commercial aircraft will force massive changes on maintenance and support providers once the new electric aircraft designs, with their radically different powertrains

  Categories: Aircraft Electrification, Economics, More Electric Aircraft, Propulsion, Support

  Tags: Maintenance, MRO

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  NASA’s New Aviation Horizons initiative

  2nd Nov 2018

  NASA’s New Aviation Horizons initiative began in October 2016. A 10 year “acceleration for advanced technologies testing”, New Aviation Horizons (NAH) plans to build a

  Categories: Aircraft, Aircraft Electrification, Configuration, Governance, Propulsion, Structural Design

  Tags: FAA, Government, NASA, Oct 2016, Regulations, Research

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  ACCEL – Joint project from YASA, Rolls-Royce & Electroflight

  15th Oct 2018

  A joint team of Rolls-Royce, YASA and Electroflight received funding from the UK Government to carry out research aimed at accelerating the adoption of all-electric

  Categories: Aircraft, Aircraft Electrification, Aircraft Size, Developer, Energy Generation, Propulsion

  Tags: Electroflight Ltd, Jun 2018, Rolls Royce, Small, YASA Ltd

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  E-Fan X demonstrator from Airbus, Rolls Royce & Siemens

  11th Oct 2018

  Airbus, Rolls-Royce, and Siemens have formed a partnership which aims at developing a near-term flight demonstrator of hybrid-electric propulsion in commercial aircraft. Following a comprehensive

  Categories: Aircraft, Aircraft Electrification, Developer, Energy Distribution, Energy Generation, Energy Storage, Journey Style, Propulsion

  Tags: Airbus, Fan, Hybrid, Nov 2017, OEM, On Board Generation, On Board Storage, Point-to-Point, Regional Airliner, Rolls Royce, Siemens

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  Watt’s Up – Cambridge and Boeing fly world’s first hybrid electric plane

  8th Oct 2018

  Boeing and the University of Cambridge flew the world’s first hybrid range extender electric aircraft in December 2014. The hybrid propulsion system was designed and

  Categories: Aircraft, Aircraft Electrification, Developer, Energy Storage, Propulsion

  Tags: Boeing, Dec 2014, Hybrid, On Board Generation, On Board Storage, Small, University of Cambridge

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  World’s first manned electric flight

  28th Sep 2018

  According to Guiness World Records, the world’s first ever manned electric-powered flight was made on 21 October 1973 in Wels, Austria by an MB-E1 registration OE-9023.

  Categories: Aircraft, Aircraft Electrification, Aircraft Size, Energy Storage

  Tags: MB-E1, Ni-Cd, Oct 1973, On Board Storage, Small

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  Misconceptions of Electric Propulsion Aircraft and Their Emergent Aviation Markets

  24th Sep 2018

  Published in 2014, this paper by Mark D. Moore and Bill Fredericks, both of NASA, outlines key misunderstandings about the integration of electric propulsion in

  Categories: Aircraft, Aircraft Electrification, Energy Distribution, Energy Storage, Market, Propulsion, Structural Design

  Tags: Aerodynamics, NASA, Power System, Research Agency

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