NEW YORK - As we continue to explore electrifying everything everywhere all at once, the current focus is on aviation. As discussed, the end game is batteries and biofuels, often in hybrid-electric aircraft. But we aren’t in the end game. What will the next few years look like, Michael Barnard asks for Forbes. Continue reading original article.
The Military & Aerospace Electronics take:
5 March 2024 -Barnard writes "I’ve spoken a few times with aerospace engineer Kevin Antcliff, formerly of NASA where he led development of the regional air mobility report and now of XWing where he is product lead for their leading autonomous freight aviation service. I also sit on the advisory board of FLIMAX, a UK firm developing an electric flight seeing and air taxi aircraft, whose rendering is at the top of this article. And I’ve spent a lot of time talking to industry leaders in this space like Anders Forslund, co-founder, and CEO of Heart Aerospace, arguably the leader at present with their 30-seat hybrid electric turboprop, and the founders of Electron Aviation, focused on a four-passenger electric air taxi and light cargo offering."
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