Boeing's Electric Taxi Motor

On Tue, 13 Sep 2005 16:17:02 GMT, Kyler Laird
wrote in ::

Larry Dighera writes:

A motor in the hub design is the most elegant solution. I wouldn't
have thought the motor would have sufficient torque to drive the
wheels without adequate gear reduction.

Exactly - the much higher than usual (5x) low-speed torque of the
Chorus motors are what make them so appropriate for this application.
I wish I had a kit for my Aztec!

Even at 5X torque, it would seem that some gearing would be necessary
for a small motor to move an airliner. But there may be a way to
build that into the hub also.

I got interested in BOREF for their licensing of Cool Chips
http://www.coolchips.gi/
to keep avionics and turbine engines(!) cool. I think that's going
to take awhile to develop. The motors are much more immediately
exciting.

--kyler

Wow! That is a breakthrough. Thanks for the information.