Southern California-based charter air services, JetSuite and JetSuite X, announced a deal where they would buy up to 100 of Zunum hybrid electric aircraft.
Short-haul flights produce over 40% of aviation emissions. Zunum Aero is developing 10- to 50-seat aircraft.
Zunum is targeting 8 cents per seat mile with 700 mile range hybrid airplanes. This would be about $60 to fly one way from Los Angeles to San Francisco. The planes will fly at about 350 mph.
Traveling to and from smaller airports will mean less time waiting and shorter times to get door to door.
70 percent of your travel time for shorter flights is spent in the airports. Only 10 percent of round-trips between 800 and 1,600 kilometers (500 to 1,000 miles) and less than half a percent of those under 800 km are made using airplanes.
Zunum Aero is building a 12-passenger hybrid-electric airplane now. They will have their first flight tests in 2019 and will begin commercial flights in 2022.
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The real kicker is who will be supplying the generator turbine/APU? Honeywell? Also, while these represent the core of electric flight, the fact that they are not going for more distributed propulsion is key here. Most of those involved accept that heavily distributed is better, but practical near term engineering forces more classical designs and propulsion arrangements.
The real kicker is who will be supplying the generator turbine/APU? Honeywell?Also while these represent the core of electric flight the fact that they are not going for more distributed propulsion is key here. Most of those involved accept that heavily distributed is better but practical near term engineering forces more classical designs and propulsion arrangements.
The real kicker is who will be supplying the generator turbine/APU? Honeywell? Also, while these represent the core of electric flight, the fact that they are not going for more distributed propulsion is key here. Most of those involved accept that heavily distributed is better, but practical near term engineering forces more classical designs and propulsion arrangements.
The real kicker is who will be supplying the generator turbine/APU? Honeywell?Also while these represent the core of electric flight the fact that they are not going for more distributed propulsion is key here. Most of those involved accept that heavily distributed is better but practical near term engineering forces more classical designs and propulsion arrangements.
The real kicker is who will be supplying the generator turbine/APU? Honeywell?
Also, while these represent the core of electric flight, the fact that they are not going for more distributed propulsion is key here. Most of those involved accept that heavily distributed is better, but practical near term engineering forces more classical designs and propulsion arrangements.
Well you’ll probably need that landing recharge to taxi to the terminal.
Well you’ll probably need that landing recharge to taxi to the terminal.
This is certainly more practical for now than pure electric aircraft… Your battery only has to be big enough to get you up to cursing altitudes and your turbine only has to be big enough to keep you there. You can also recharge as you descend.
This is certainly more practical for now than pure electric aircraft… Your battery only has to be big enough to get you up to cursing altitudes and your turbine only has to be big enough to keep you there. You can also recharge as you descend.
Well you’ll probably need that landing recharge to taxi to the terminal.
This is certainly more practical for now than pure electric aircraft… Your battery only has to be big enough to get you up to cursing altitudes and your turbine only has to be big enough to keep you there. You can also recharge as you descend.