If it looks like a pelican…
Opinion I’ve been lucky enough to learn from some very experienced engineers in my career. One of the first tried to teach me technical drawing
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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.
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