Airbus and Rolls-Royce hit eject on hybrid-electric airliner testbed
I can't find a good aircraft thread to drop this in. www.theregister.co.uk: Airbus and Rolls-Royce hit eject on hybrid-electric airliner testbed after E-Fan X project fails to get off the ground
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After watching some videos of small aircraft fitted with Corolla engines, it seems like trying a similar approach with a Prius engine wouldn't be impossible. But anyway, I'd only hold my breath for hybrid aircraft to become mainstream as long as they're fitted with a propeller (either piston-engined or turboprop), or the fan is so massive that it requires a reduction gearbox in order to prevent the tips of the blades to break the barrier of sound.
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This is only hybrid for test purposes, working toward an all-electric solution.
They flew into an airport they can't fly out of again without the un-tested 4th engine. |
cRiPpLe_rOoStEr — Didn't you talk about putting windpower in your grandmother's house? I can't find the thread. :confused:
Anyway I posted something about tuned mass dampers and now it looks like Julian Edgar predicted the future, unless it was more than a week ago. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FPT9dPE4oRs |
They can fly it out when the temp drops some. There's a problem with the balanced field calculation and they can't dump fuel load.
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Thanks. Good that we're not headed into Summer? :)
I should have focused on the 'beer-keg' sized generator. It came across as negative. |
I won't hold my breath for some all-electric aircraft. Pressurizing the cabin with an electric compressor might spend too much more energy than it would be worth bleeding from a compressor of an engine.
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Let's do the time-warp again? :confused:
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thinks outside the box answer: Air can be stored quite effectively in bottles when the ICE is running |
I made housings for the shuttle high-pressure fuel turbopumps at my first job out of school. 71,140 hp shaft horsepower from a pump a little bigger than a Chevy big block. Crazy stuff.
I got to work on the F-22, F-35 and some cool DARPA stuff too: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikiped...0295-05%29.jpg |
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