e-flight-Journal01-2017

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