Electrisch vliegen in 2027 volgens Easyjet

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Met de bijna onwaarschijnlijke sprong die het verschijnsel "electrisch voertuig" gemaakt heeft de laatste 10 jaar (na meer dan een eeuw een randverschijnsel te zijn geweest) zou het getuigen van serieuze onderschatting te denken dat het met vliegtuigen niet plotsklaps erg kan versnellen...

Ja,het begint met eerder "sportieve" aangelegenheden....ongetwijfeld....


Ondertussen is de trein al bijna een mensenleven grotendeels "electrisch" en toch bewijst dat systeem van grote bakken op ijzeren staven dagelijks zijn technische "verouderdheid" buiten enkele niche-gebieden (in Europa,het sneltrein-netwerk tussen RELEVANTE plaatsen)

[Micele]

Net op Canvas de geschiedenis van de luchtvaart.

Charles Lindbergh vliegt solo van New-York naar Parijs... in 1927.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orteig_Prize

De topictitel:

Electrisch vliegen in 2027 volgens Easyjet

[Micele]

ff opfrissen ...

De "electrisch vliegende taxis", verticaal opstijgen/ landen (eVTOL) komen eraan. Pakweg electrische helis.

Het zal 2024 worden voor deze VA-X4 (4 passagiers +piloot) commercieel worden.

Kruissnelheid +320 kmh, praktisch bereik tot 193 km. (Brussel - Amsterdam = 174 km)

Vertical Aerospace zou 1000 voorbestelllingen hebben.

https://electrek.co/2021/06/11/egeb-...om-uk-startup/

eVTOL startup Vertical Aerospace

Bristol, UK-based Vertical Aerospace, an electric vertical take-off and landing aircraft (eVTOLs) startup, announced yesterday that it has pre-orders for up to 1,000 of its electric VA-X4 vertical takeoff aircraft. That includes orders from American Airlines (between 250 and 350), Virgin Atlantic (between 50 and 150), and aircraft leasing group Avolon (310).

The Financial Times reports:

Vertical plans to go public this year on the New York Stock Exchange via a merger with special purpose acquisition (SPAC) vehicle Broadstone Acquisition, in a deal valuing it at $2.2 billion.

SPAC investors include American Airlines, Avolon, Honeywell, Rolls-Royce, and Microsoft’s venture capital fund M12.

Vertical Aerospace details the VA-X4’s specs:

Capable of carrying up to five people (four passengers and a pilot), the VA-X4 is set to be the world’s first certified winged all-electric Vertical Take-Off and Landing (eVTOL) aircraft, and is on course to start commercial flights in 2024.

VA-X4 will boast cruise speeds of 202 mph with a useable range of up to 120 miles.

Additional features will include reduce noise pollution – 100x quieter than a helicopter thanks to the VA-X4’s distributed propulsion system, a 15-meter wingspan, 13 meters in length, ensuring it can take off and land from existing helipads, a fly-by-wire flight control systems to make aircraft simple to fly, while its simple design optimizes safety, efficient aerodynamics, enabling it to fly with far less energy and power than a helicopter, a payload capacity of 450kg, EASA-certified design and is powered by Lithium-ion batteries.

Ovo Energy entrepreneur and now Vertical Aerospace CEO Stephen Fitzpatrick cofounded the eVTOL company five years ago. Fitzpatrick said in a statement:

Electrification will transform flying in the 21st century in the same way the jet engine did 70 years ago.

Simulatiefilmpje:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AWuanKgBpCw

Een helipad is voldoende.

[Micele]

Musk deed een uitspraak over electrisch vliegen.

Als de batterijpacks "mogelijk in enkele jaren" ~ de helft minder wegen dan vandaag (voor dezelfde energie) wordt het plezant "die vliegtuigen" te ontwikkelen.

Een compleet batterijpack van 100 kWh zou dan minder dan 250 kg mogen wegen, vandaag wegen die nog 394 kg.

https://www.teslarati.com/tesla-elec...lem-elon-musk/
Tesla’s Elon Musk says electric planes would be ‘fun problem to work on’
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At the 2021 Shareholder Meeting held yesterday at the company’s Gigafactory Texas facility in Austin, Musk briefly discussed Tesla’s electric plane, and whether Tesla fans could see it eventually.

“We have a lot on our plate here. But electric planes, yes, I have been dying to do that for a decade, honestly,” Musk said. “But, we have quite a few fish to fry here. So, maybe one day the electric plane, battery energy density is improving every year. So, that’s an important metric to get the sell energy density to around 450, 500 watt-hours per kilogram and have a pack efficiency of around 400-watt hours per kilogram, that’s when electric planes start to get interesting.”

Sigh … there should be a new supersonic jet, this time electric

— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) October 25, 2020

In comparison, Tesla EVs utilize about 254 watt-hours per kilogram, which means the output would essentially have to double for an electric plane to work or be effective.

Essentially, Musk did not count the Tesla electric plane out completely, but it does not appear that it will come anytime soon. “It would be a fun problem to work on at some point. But we have a lot to do over the next few years. So, we are going to focus on these things, get them right and maybe one day to do that.”

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Ik moet denken aan de jaren zeventig, de space age, de toekomstvoorspellingen.
Om het met de woorden van een forumgebruikers onderschrift hier te zeggen: "... en toen ontplofte het".