Re:London-Paris electric flight 'in decade'
by Gravityloss on Wednesday March 22, 2017 @12:11PM
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Also you can tune the location and amount of propulsors, and have a high efficiency rotation rate with direct drive electric motors.
The current turbofan engines are close to the size limits in
relative fan size and bypass ratio without a gearbox, which adds cost and mass. (Only one manufacturer is in the process of introducing a geared turbofan.)
Because of no high speed jet exhaust and large area thrusters, these aircraft have the potential to be able to take off really steeply and to be really quiet.
The current turbofan engines are close to the size limits in relative fan size and bypass ratio without a gearbox, which adds cost and mass. (Only one manufacturer is in the process of introducing a geared turbofan.)
Because of no high speed jet exhaust and large area thrusters, these aircraft have the potential to be able to take off really steeply and to be really quiet.