Questions tagged [electric-engine]
Electric engine used as non conventional propulsion system of an aircraft.
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What‘s the diameter of the engines of the Airbus E-Fan?
does somebody know the diameter of the E-Fan‘s engines ?
To me the look like around 80cm or what do you think ?
Also, with more and wider blades and 60 kW motors instead of 30 couldn‘t they get much ...
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Could a Combined Inverted Brayton Cycle and rankine cycle engine be used as a power source in a high altitude hybrid aircraft?
Combined Cycle Power Plant for Hybrid Aeroplane.
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Inverted Gas Turbine
From the Institute of Combustion Technology - DLR
MGT = Micro Gas Turbine
IBC = Inverted Brayton Cycle
In the inverse ...
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Make a 3 engine turboprop electric or steam hybrid aircraft?
Was thinking about this, have a 2 engine regular turboprop with a third electric engine for extra performance (imagine a DC3 like the Conroy Tri-Turbo-Three). The 3rd electric engine would be run from ...
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How many mid-ocean battery swaps are needed for an electric A380 to refly the first transatlantic flight?
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To understand what the current level of electric airplane propulsion is with respect to large passenger airliners I developed the following question:
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How many battery swaps would be ...
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