Integrating to power plants into one airframe is his considerable design challenge. VoltAero has developed a practical solution.
Heavier than air flight has been a technology that has evolved for 120 years, and in that time, practical aviation has developed on two parallel lines: airframes and powerplants. In most cases, engines have been the rate limiting step in aircraft development, despite considerable refinement in piston engine and gas turbine technology, the fundamental operating principles have been the same for decades.
Right now, that’s changing. The development of higher energy density, lighter batteries, and advanced electric motors has brought electric propulsion into the realm of practical use in aircraft, albeit with limitations in range and payload. The same constraints exist in automotive applications of electric technology, limitations which can be addressed with a hybrid approach. Can internal combustion engines be combined with battery electric drive to offer the range and endurance of combustion engines and the lower emissions and low noise of electric drive?
Joining engineering.com on this episode of The Engineering Roundtable are two experts to answer these important questions.
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