Airbus creates the first electric airplane race with Air Race E
Airbus has announced a global partnership with Air Race E, the world’s first electric airplane race set to launch its inaugural series in 2020 Airbus is the Official Founding Partner…
ACCEL: Rolls-Royce engineers aim to build faster e-aircraft
Engineers from Rolls-Royce and their partners have set themselves the goal of developing the world’s fastest electric aircraft as part of the ACCEL (Accelerating the Electrification of Flight) project. The…
Mission Analysis and Component-Level Sensitivity Study of Hybrid-Electric General-Aviation Propulsion Systems
The system-level capabilities and component-level sensitivities of hybrid-electric propulsion systems were analyzed by modeling a twin-engine general-aviation aircraft.
Illinois University to test hybrid P2006T
Researchers at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign have utilized a series of simulations to model the performance of twin-engine hybrid-electric general-aviation propulsion systems. Their paper appears in the Journal of Aircraft. They created a flight-performance simulator to represent accurately the true flight performance of a Tecnam P2006T.
Conference on Hybrid Aircraft at Naples University
Fabio Russo, Tecnam R&D explains the H3PS project.
Manufacturers Advance Hybrid Engine Efforts – IFR Magazine
Link: http://www.ifr-magazine.com/issues/34_8/briefing/Briefing-July-2018_1473-1.htm Pdf: Briefing: July 2018 – IFR Magazine Article
Tecnam s’intéresse à l’hybride – INFOPILOTE FR
Link: https://www.info-pilote.fr/Tecnam-s-interesse-a-l-hybride_a1937.html Pdf: Tecnam s’intéresse à l’hybride
NASA X-Plane Gets Closer to Electric Flight
NASA’s next X-plane, the all-electric X-57 Maxwell, is getting closer to its maiden flight. Engineers at Scaled Composites in Mojave, California, along with prime contractor on the program Empirical Systems…
Tecnam, Rotax and Siemens Partner on Hybrid-Electric Propulsion Project
https://www.flyingmag.com/tecnam-rotax-and-siemens-partner-on-hybrid-electric-propulsion-project Three companies in Europe – Tecnam, BRP-Rotax and Siemens – announced they will lead a project for the development of parallel hybrid powertrains in general aviation. Funded under the…