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Meet The Wright Spirit: An All-Electric Regional Jet
Wright Electric this week announced the launch of the Wright Spirit. The Los Angeles-based startup is looking to bring in the first zero-emissions regional airliner with this program. Ultimately, the firm is looking to have a full-electric aircraft in the air by 2026. (simpleflying.com) Más...Sort type: [Top] [Newest]
This would be good ferrying people from Washington Dulles to Reagan National Airport and not much more.
An electric jet? Won't be a jet if there is no added thrust from expanding hot gases.
More like A Ducted fan! Like on an RC A/C except in RC we call them as we see them.. "Ducted Fans"
I agree with you, but taking the RR Trent 1000 as an example, 90% of the thrust is produced by the ducted fan, yet we still call it a jet!
You take away that 10% Thrust and you have no Thrust! But can you imagine an Engine Failure on one of these Electric Birds.... Put on the swimming Gear!
I agree. But if you take a jet engine and remove the "burner cans" and the injected combustible, there would be no additional thrust from expanding gases. It would be just another air flow engine similar to the ducted fan.
If you removed the Burner cans, it would not be an engine.. LOL