Posted on 09/28/2022 1:00:50 PM PDT by Red Badger
A historic moment for zero-emissions flight, as the 9-seat Alice commuter plane makes its first test flightEviation
After showing off with some extravagant runway wheelies last week, Alice, the "world's first all-electric commuter aircraft," lifted off overnight on a historic first flight. It's another major milestone toward zero-emissions medium-range air travel.
Alice took off at 7.10 am local time from Grant County International Airport in Washington state, and made a short, 8-minute circuit, reaching an altitude of 3,500 ft (1,067 m) before coming in and touching down.
"Today we embark on the next era of aviation – we have successfully electrified the skies with the unforgettable first flight of Alice," said Eviation President and CEO Gregory Davis. "People now know what affordable, clean and sustainable aviation looks and sounds like for the first time in a fixed-wing, all-electric aircraft. This ground-breaking milestone will lead innovation in sustainable air travel, and shape both passenger and cargo travel in the future."
Eviation is targeting 2026 for FAA certification and entry into service Eviation is targeting 2026 for FAA certification and entry into serviceEviation It is indeed a significant moment, although there's a way to go yet. The Alice we see flying in the video below is still an experimentally registered prototype, rather than a fully certified production aircraft. Eviation still has to run it through a full and rigorous flight test regime, and jump through the many hoops of FAA certification, not just for the aircraft and all its systems, but also for the company itself as a design organization and a production facility. The company hopes to have this all squared away and get Alice into service by 2026.
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...and fuselage, and ailerons and tailpieces.................
You know they will look the other way....................
The answer, my friend, is blowin’ in the wind. The answer is blowin’ in the wind....................
The engines die when they turn on the landing lights?..................
Sukamov?..........................😉
There should be a jettison switch.................
Chase, Patsy Cline, Cowboy Copas, Hawkshaw Hawkins, Jim Reeves, Ricky Nelson, Troy Gentry and Reba McEntire’s Band for the R&B and Country/Western passengers..............
They are: It's 'Sustainable'....................
That could mess with the cg a bit!
Rather that than being a flying hot dog!......................😎
Lol... welp let us just hope there is a spare battery pack for that!!
It will end up a two seater as the additional batteries take up all the weight limits.
Electric aircraft are a stupid idea for a number of reasons range being the one mentioned in the very short article but the biggest down fall in my mind is batteries.
Common aircraft are powered by so called fossil fuels.
These fuels are consumed or burned during flight.
This means the aircraft weighs less on landing than it did on take off.
A battery powered aircraft will weigh the same on landing as it did on take off.
A multi-engined aircraft will often circle the airport to burn off fuel or dump fuel if it loses an engine during flight so as to lighten the aircraft for a safer landing.
A battery powered aircraft does not have this option. No matter what the aircraft will weigh the same on landing as it did on take off.
Loss of an engine during flight is considered a major problem for a passenger aircraft requiring emergency actions and notification of the control tower.
For a battery powered aircraft reducing the weight of the aircraft prior to landing will not be an option.
“Sukamov”
Suck, squeeze, bang , and blow.
Will keep an eye out for any “official “ news.
If it disappears....you know ...... :D
More important than how far it can fly under power, is how far can it glide with no power.
Looks like a lawn dart to me, not much wing surface for 18,000 lbs.
I thought by 2022 we’d be throwing banana peels/beer cans in a flux-capacitor...so much time/money wasted on worthless left-wing causes/neo-con proxy wars/gov. fraud.
8 minutes... Should have flown at Kill Devil Hills, North Carolina.
Considering it takes 21,000 Tesla-style batteries, I’m not surprised it looks like that.
Maybe that’s a fast charger - getting hit by a lightening strike. Call Elon Musk...
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