You also want an ePaper? Increase the reach of your titles
YUMPU automatically turns print PDFs into web optimized ePapers that Google loves.
e Training & more<br />
eVolos 2X will start passenger transport test in Dubai in <strong>2017</strong>.<br />
records. At Paris Airshow the aircraft towed up an aerobatic glider<br />
to 1000 Meter (with an average climb rate of 9.5 Meters per second)<br />
than the glider performed aerobatics while the Extra landed<br />
and then after the glider landed the Extra, without recharging, took<br />
off again and for an impressive aerobatic show with 260 Kw on<br />
the prop.<br />
Even more serious is when a national government wants to explore<br />
the possibility of using electric aircraft and wants to become<br />
a leading country in this fiel, like the Norwegian Government has<br />
announced in spring <strong>2017</strong>. The country which achieved the highest<br />
density of electric cars per inhabitant in the past 10 years over<br />
a government program is evaluating the possibilities of electrifying<br />
the network of state owned Airfields around the country. The<br />
conditions are ideal. As Norway has money in the budget from the<br />
oil, and a production of electric energy from water turbines which<br />
exceeds its consumption. It also has a net of airfield from which a<br />
lot of commuter <strong>flight</strong>s with mostly under 300 KM distance are operated<br />
as part of the state transport plan, because the road network is<br />
very loose and ground transport out of the centers slow.<br />
The brave new world of electric aviation is forming. We sincerely<br />
hope that you are as excited as we are to read the intriguing new<br />
electric aircraft designs in the following pages in nearly all categories<br />
and the new VTOL - aviation section of WDLA, and to look forward<br />
even just five years from today.<br />
The Multicopter Whisper<br />
from France flies with eight<br />
Plettenberg motors.<br />
e Flight Journal<br />
12