Searching For The Emerald City In My Electric Plane
In recent years, there has been a steady increase in the demand for environmentally friendly lifestyle and technologies. Companies and individuals alike are seeking for methods to stop the need for carbon based fuels and create a greener future as climate change becomes a bigger concern by the day.
One of the newest technologies being heavily invested in is the Electric Plane! Electric aircrafts are poised to disrupt the aviation sector by providing a cleaner and more sustainable means of transportation. Companies such as Boeing and Airbus have already made significant investments in the development of electric aircraft with longer flight ranges and faster recharge times.
Startup Eviation flew its medium-range electric airplane, Alice, for the first time in 2022, zipping over Grant County International Airport in rural eastern Washington. The airport is a retired military facility with a very long runway, making it uniquely suited for testing aircraft of all sizes. That has special value in the Pacific Northwest, which is a major hub for aircraft design. Physicist Omer Bar-Yohay and his business partner Aviv Tzidon founded Eviation in 2015 in Israel, and the company is now based in Washington. It joins others like British Columbia’s Harbour Air in making strides toward electrifying commercial aircraft.
According to an article in Popular Mechanics, Alice is designed for flights of up to 250 miles. The electric plane has a “maximum useful load” of up to 2,600 pounds, which Eviation says is enough to carry up to nine passengers at a time over these shorter distances. The company combined resources from more than half a dozen suppliers in order to build the sleek, futuristic airplane and its powertrain. And the sales pitch goes beyond the usual arguments for electrifying commercial air travel: because its planes are extremely quiet, Eviation believes it can introduce commercial air travel in locations where it was previously banned due to noise ordinances.
Zimbabwean Inventor, Maxwell Chikumbutso claimed to have invented a hybrid engine powered helicopter, an electric car, a magnetic converter, a green power generator and a drone. He is the Founder of Saith Holdings Inc. Sadly there were three separate attempts on his life after he turned down an offer to work with the US Government and returned to Zimbabwe. Chikumbutso’s discoveries are the culmination of work that started in 2003. He attracted international attention, due to his innovations formerly resided in California, where he pursued his scientific and engineering activities, shuffling between the US and his native country. His use of free energy in his inventions runs counter to the current though on the laws of thermodynamics and according to him, that has made it difficult to have his “stuff” patented worldwide. He openly states that he and his team have made history.
Sadly, in May 2021, Maxwell’s company announced that the inventor experienced the third attack on his life and they issued a statement on Facebook, soliciting prayers for the genius, who, according to them, was fighting to regain his health after he had been poisoned. many detractors the company announced would want us dead because of their opposition to the technology that we have brought to world as well as the life changing prospect of ‘Free Energy’”. They added that the company received threats that range from death, financial and personal ruin through emails, Facebook Messenger and other social media platforms. continent.
More and more African geniuses are acknowledged and celebrated by the West: Germany-based Burkinabè architect Diébédo Francis Kéré won the Pritzker Architecture Prize ( Architecture’s Nobel); Nigerian Wole Soyinka won the Nobel Prize in Literature years ago, physician Denis Mukwege from the DRC (Congo) recently won the Nobel Peace Prize for his staunch commitment to the treatment of female war victims and Malian astrophysicist Cheick Modibo Diarra is one of the first Africans who worked for NASA.
Many of these extremely talented Africans are not in the limelight but their work can improve living conditions on the continent. It would first require an acceptance of these people in Africa and granting the necessary attention and importance to their works. Such a move would certainly avoid their migration and search for more favourable environments for their work. That migration potentially exposes them to tragedies like the type that befell Maxwell Chikumbutso. The mention of his case in the press is a real a wake-up call for concerned Africans. Mysteriously a campaign began in 2020 to discredit his claim an articles claiming he invented nothing hit ALL major news outlets including the New York Post, Associated Press, and Time! Whatever the truth the fact is a lot of money was spent to bury a story that originated in Zimbabwe.
The proprietary technology at the core of the Lilium Jet is Ducted Electric Vectored Thrust (DEVT) which we have refined through successive generations of aircraft demonstrators. Electric jet engines integrated into the wing flaps provide advantages in payload, aerodynamic efficiency and a lower noise profile, whilst also providing thrust vector control to maneuver the Lilium Jet through every phase of flight. Traditional jet engines power 95% of commercial aircraft and Lilium has based their design on the same principles, yet far simpler. The electric jet engines rely on just a single "stage" rotor/stator system driven by an electric motor with zero emissions.
The Lilium Jet can adapt for a range of customers and uses, with each configuration optimized for an unparalleled experience. The most spacious cabin arrangement is designed for private flights, with luxurious club seating. Alternatively, the cabin can be configured with 6 seats for passenger flights, or without seats. Nowadays many companies are striving for new electric planes. Such big companies as Airbus, Boeing, JetBlue are pouring millions of dollars into the development of electric planes. They develop not only huge aircraft for hundreds of passengers but also some private or unmanned planes.
However, the most successful companies are smaller ones that you probably haven't even heard of yet, unless you have a private plane and are specifically interested in this topic. For example, today you can purchase your first electric plane for $140,000 from Pipistrel company — one of the leaders of the industry. The H55 company from Switzerland, created in 2017, is another of the leading electric aircraft companies, which calls its mission "to make air transport, quiet, clean and affordable." The company's current models include Solar Impulse airplane — the only electric plane with unlimited endurance, the Twister Aero1 acrobatic aircraft, and its first customer application — the BRM Aero Bristell Energic flight trainer made with cooperation with the traditional aircrafts manufacturer Bristell. The model has a 190 kg payload, climb rate of 800 ft/min, and the electric energy cost of $7 for an hour of flight.
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