e-flight-Journal01-2017

e Flight expo
& E Flight show
Market Watch
because the hall has large hangar doors and access to the
airfield. This is important because the e-flight-expo also had
wings in 2017 and launched for the world’s first time the e-
flight-show celebrating the premiere of AERO!
In addition to the NASA-awarding hybrid touring motor glider
E-Genius, three aircraft powered by Siemens electric motors
took off at e-flight-show: an E-Extra 330LE and two e-
Fusions showed the world’s first e-formation flight. The Extra
completed an aerobatics sequence, along with the aerobatic
performance of Hangar 55 Hamilton aEro, an E-robatic
aircraft from Switzerland. The Antares of Lange Aviation,
the most sold and so far the only series produced e-plane,
also participated in the e-flight-show. The pure electric flying
show took place twice during AERO, on Tuesday, for the
press day for media representatives and invited guests and
on Saturday to celebrate the 25th anniversary of AERO, a
mixed flight show with electric and conventionally driven
engines.
Day one of the AERO experience was a review of the electric
aircraft innovations. This is a rapidly changing technology
with both motors and applications showing up all over
the place. The main concentration of electric systems is in
Hall A7, where everyone from small startups with small motor
solutions all the way up to the heavyweight in the industry,
Siemens, are all in this location. Just as the show has
many prototype aircraft, which may have never flown before,
Hall A7 has prototype motors that may have never been installed
on a production aircraft.
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