Posted on 01/31/2024 12:57:03 PM PST by Red Badger
Electra, a next-gen aerospace company with a mission to help decarbonize aviation and open new air transportation markets, today announced its achievement of pre-order sales of over 2,000 electric short takeoff and landing (eSTOL) aircraft with a market value exceeding $8 billion. Electra passed the order milestone on January 19th when it signed a Letter of Intent (LOI) with JetSetGo Aviation Services Private Ltd. ("JetSetGo") at Wings India 2024, in addition to recent LOIs with travel industry leaders LYGG ("LYGG") in Finland and Charm Aviation, LLC ("Charm") in New York City to introduce Electra's eSTOL aircraft in their respective markets.
Electra's order book underscores strong interest from a broad array of flight operators across diverse markets. These operators are opting for Electra's eSTOL aircraft to offer a more convenient and sustainable air travel experience for their customers. Whether facilitating short-distance flights from urban vertiports, covering longer journeys of up to 500 miles to regional airports, or flying adventure tours or medical missions to locations without ground infrastructure, Electra's partners value the unparalleled flexibility, safety, and economics of Electra's eSTOL aircraft.
JetSetGo Aviation Services Partnership
JetSetGo, India's first marketplace for private jet and helicopter charters, operates India's largest on-demand aircraft fleet. Electra and JetSetGo are collaborating to explore relevant markets and identify new routes using eSTOL capabilities. These routes will establish vital connectivity between India's cities and regional transportation hubs for communities underserved by flight.
"India's geography and demographics make it an ideal launch market for Advanced Air Mobility (AAM). We want to lead the transformation of urban and regional connectivity and believe Electra is the right partner with the technology to make this vision a reality," remarked Kanika Tekriwal, JetSetGo's Chief Operating Officer (CEO) and co-founder.
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EV AVIATION PING!................
How are they generating the electricity? And will you be able to fly it with a Xbox controller?
Just imagine the fireball!
Passengers will each be issued a asbestos suit and a life jacket..................
Looks like a miniature Spruce Goose.
Since it’s EV can we call it the Juice Goose?
Range of 500 miles, and speed of 200 mph. It can serve a purpose, if the price is right.
You can "decarbonize" to the maximum extent possible and it MIGHT reduce total global carbon fuel use 0.001%.
I saw a good analysis yesterday that showed how much "decarbonization" will occur when half of the WORLD's automobile fleet is all EVs. It was pathetically small, less than 5%.
CO2 in our lungs reaches 40,000–50,000 ppm. Each human exhales 2.3 pounds of CO2 per day. Earth’s 8 billion people produce 18.4 billion pounds of CO2 per dayHumans are 1/40 of all CO2-excreting life on Earth. Overall CO2 excreted by the total animal and fungal biomass on the planet is 736 billion pounds of CO2 per day.
Daily CO2 emissions from all worldwide human industrial sources in 2020 were 35.2 billion pounds.
The entire animal and fungal biomass puts out more than 20 times as much CO2 as all industrial emissions.
This ignores CO2 emissions from natural sources such as volcanoes.
And an asbestos parachute?
Anyone else remember back in the 60s, if you wanted to fly into Washington National (DCA) it had to be on an Electra...nothing larger?
I’ll order a fleet of 250 or so! Right now!
Make that a $9 billion pre-order book!!
That’s how you do PR for a stock listing or bank loan
Your asbestos suit will fall out from your overhead console. Please put yours on before helping your children or the elderly.
They call their design "hybrid electric" and the technology demonstrator they flew has a single turbine engine connected to a generator plus lithium batteries to power the eight electric motors.
But the BATTERIES! What about the batteries?
Now if it is operating on hydrogen fuel cells, it might work.
Unicorn farts and pixie dust are in very short supply.
Dude wants to “democratize aviation”.
Eno0ugh buzzwords in that short clip to choke a horse.
Good for them, I’ll pass. A PC-6 is my idea of a commercial STOL aircraft.
The democracy or democratic aviation. What could possibly go wrong.
Just ask Lucas Electric...
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