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Airbus shows E-Fan, its electric plane due in 2017
FARNBOROUGH, England -- Although battery weight may keep electric planes from becoming mainstream in the near future, Airbus believes its E-Fan 2.0 will find a real market: pilot training. It hopes to begin selling the E-Fan 2.0 in late 2017 for pilot training. That's only one fraction of the plane market. A later planned E-Fan 4.0 with space for four passengers, however, will be aimed at the general-aviation market. (www.cnet.com) Más...Sort type: [Top] [Newest]
Today we have an electric plane that flew round the world. Electric planes are a certainty. We should not judge future by today's visibility.
I'm not particularly a "fan" of Airbus, but I like this fan.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l_vOVOTglt4
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l_vOVOTglt4
My concern is not the Fan, but the Batteries... Not this RC plane that is using same battery technology as the Airbus Fan.. http://youtu.be/k9mcNvOGKtI
《When the Wright brothers started flying it was considered a joke too》. It's why they came in France, to find people more friendly ready to follow them.
If i were king of Airbus for a day, my first message to designers would be "find away to charge the batteries in flight"....
I suspect learning to fly in a 1000lb aircraft will make some real stick 'n rudder pilots, at least.
actually if it worked like a hybrid it would be efficient. Use fuel to run a generator to recharge the batteries/run the engines. For example diesel/electric train engines are much more efficient then straight diesel engines.