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Airbus Electric E-Fan Trainer Receives Popular Science Magazine's 2014 Best of What's New Award



 
 
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Default Airbus Electric E-Fan Trainer Receives Popular Science Magazine's 2014 Best of What's New Award

http://www.airbusgroup.com/int/en/story-overview/future-of-e-aircraft.html
The future of e-aircraft
Electricity is in the air
E-Fan

In the 18th century, the British theologian John Wesley described the
electricity that astonished his contemporaries as “the soul of the universe”.
Three centuries later, this definition is even more accurate thanks to the new
aircraft being developed by Airbus Group. The company is now setting its sights
on achieving silent, CO2-free, all-electric flight for both unmanned and
passenger aircraft over the next three decades.

"Our focus is to develop innovations that will help define what tomorrow’s
aerospace industry will look like"
Jean Botti
Chief Technical Officer of Airbus Group

As part of this roadmap, Airbus Group is currently involved in a number of
technological programmes whose breakthroughs could eventually also be applied
to an all-electric helicopter and a 90-seat-passenger regional airliner with
fully electric or hybrid propulsion.

The final aim is to meet the European Commission’s Flightpath 2050 targets for
aircraft, which include a 75% reduction in aircraft CO2 emissions from the year
2000 baseline. “We are 20 or 30 years away from developing a big commercial
aircraft,” says head of e-aircraft programmes, Detlef Müller-Wiesner. “It’s a
question of going one step at a time."

Electric aircraft: E-Fan 4.0
Visualisation of the E-Fan 4.0, a four-seater plane
Research on electric propulsion

These are some of Airbus Group’s major projects which are moving forward
research on electric propulsion:

* The E-Fan, a fully electrically-powered aviation training aircraft

* The E-Thrust concept study based on a distributed propulsion system
architecture, which would be the basis of a fully hybrid and electric
commercial aircraft in the long term

* The DA36 E-Star 2 project, two seat hybrid electric motor aircraft, in
conjunction with Diamond Aircraft and Siemens

* Applications in the field of Unmanned Aerial Systems as shown by the
Quadcruiser prototype, which combines hover capabilities with the cruising
speed of an aircraft

The E-Roadmap takes flight

Based on experimental prototypes of all-electric aircraft, Airbus Group
Innovations – the company’s network of Research & Technology centers – has
already built the E-Fan Demonstrator, which performed its first public flight
in April 2014 at Bordeaux-Merignac airport.

”There are several electric planes flying today, but they are almost all based
on already existing platforms or on the re-engineering of existing aircraft.
For E-Fan, we started from scratch to build a completely new electric aircraft.
It is fully dedicated to electrical propulsion, in terms of aerodynamics,
integration and safety,” underlines Emmanuel Joubert, head of the propulsion
system team at Airbus Group Innovations.

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The electric E-Fan experimental aircraft display was a highlight of Airbus
Group's portfolio during ILA Berlin Air Show.

The E-Fan family

Airbus sees the E-Fan as a family of aircraft and has already signed agreements
with its partners for the industrialisation phase. The short-term goal is to
achieve entry-into-service in late 2017 of a 2.0 two-seat pilot trainer
version. This will make it the first all-electric production aircraft in the
world certified to international standards by civil airworthiness authorities.

The 2.0 version will be followed by the E-Fan 4.0, a four-seater plane targeted
for full pilot licensing and the general aviation market. A company wholly
owned by Airbus Group, named Voltair SAS, will develop, build and offer service
for the two E-Fan production versions. The final assembly facilities will be
located at Bordeaux-Mérignac Airport in the framework of French
government-backed projects for the country’s future industrialisation, called
La Nouvelle France Industrielle.

We’re interested in gaining operational experience with more than 100 E-Fan
aircraft in order to obtain statistical data that will enable us to adapt our
E-Aircraft roadmap based on the results
Detlef Müller-Wiesner
Head of E-Aircraft Programmes

The plug-in plane
E-Fan pursues visionary emission goals
Pilote standing in front of E-Fan

It is as clean as a butterfly and hums like a bee: with a 600-kilogram weight
and maximum speed of 160 km/h, E-Fan is the first aircraft with fans to have
fully electric propulsion. The plane has zero carbon dioxide emissions in
flight and is significantly quieter than a conventionally powered aircraft.
Lower noise levels of electric propulsion would potentially benefit airport
operations by allowing extended flight operation times and therefore allowing
increases in air traffic.

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The electric E-Fan training aircraft is a highly innovative technology
experimental demonstrator based on all-composite construction.

Inside the E-Fan
engineSHOW IMAGECategory photo

The telemetry system records all parameters

The E-Fan is equipped with a telemetry system to record all propulsion, battery
and engine parameters and transmit them to a ground station. Also included are
several video cameras for safety purposes to maintain contact with the pilot
and to monitor flight parameters, but also for research and, not least, for the
validation and certification process. In the E-Fan's flight-training role, the
monitoring of flight parameters will ensure that comprehensive feedback can be
given to the student pilot – a feature that will also contribute to the
development of flight training programmes.

Electric engine of the E-FanSHOW IMAGECategory photo
Two electric motors drive the aircraft

Propulsion gets smarter
The paths towards the e-aircraft

E-Fan enging

Airbus Group is also working on another project to develop innovative
propulsion systems for future electrical and hybrid aircraft that achieve
double digits reduction in fuel burn. Since 2012 the company has been
partnering with Rolls-Royce on the Distributed Electrical Aerospace Propulsion
(DEAP).

Trust in the E-Thrust

This research is represented by the initial E-Thrust study. The concept is
based on a design consisting of six electrically powered fans that propel the
aircraft, distributed along the wings – replacing conventional turbofan
engines.

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The E-Thrust is an electrical distributed propulsion system concept for lower
fuel consumption, fewer emissions and less noise.

Energy storage charged by an onboard gas power unit runs these fans.
Distributed propulsion allows separate optimisation of combustion efficiency
and propulsion efficiency. The optimal number of fans and their location is
still to be determined. Some of them could even be mounted on the fuselage and
not just on the wings to reduce drag.

The arrival of superconductivity

The DEAP project team also plans to use superconductivity technology. MRI
scanners in hospitals, for example, use superconductive electro-magnets, and
the researchers now want to benefit from their application in aerospace.

When current flows through an ordinary conductor, like copper wire, some energy
is lost as heat due to resistance in the electrical conductors.
Superconductivity is a phenomenon of exactly zero electrical resistance, which
occurs in certain materials when they are cooled below a critical temperature.
Superconductive material can therefore conduct electricity without energy loss.

"In the 1950s and ’60s aircraft were loud and you could see how much soot was
in the exhaust. A lot of research went into reducing the noise, emissions and
soot. Today's aircraft are two or three times more efficient than those
aircraft. The research we are doing now is another revolutionary step along
that path"
Graham Dodds
E-Thrust project manager at Airbus Group Innovations

DA36 E-Star 2 hybrid aircraft: an ‘electric’ industrial partnership

The new E-Aircraft System House located at Airbus Group Innovations facilities
in Munich – part of the Ludwig Bölkow Campus for advanced technology – will
contribute to the progress of Airbus Group Innovations’ E-Roadmap. The
engineers working in this laboratory will test hardware and systems for
electric and hybrid aircraft concepts such as E-Thrust, enabling analytical and
experimental work at up to four megawatt power levels.

The E-Aircraft System House is based on a collaboration between Airbus Group
and Siemens, the result of a Memorandum of Understanding signed by the two
companies and the Austrian company Diamond Aircraft in 2013. These three
partners already successfully flew a second-generation prototype of the DA36
E-Star 2 hybrid aircraft in Vienna in June last year. In this aircraft the
electricity is supplied by a small Wankel engine which drives a generator and
so functions solely as a power source.

Diamont aircraft
DA36 E-Star 2 hybrid aircraft

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http://www.aviationworldnews.com/news/the-all-electric-e-fan-aircraft-wins-popular-science-top-honor-award-39642
The All Electric E-Fan Aircraft Wins Popular Science Top Honor Award
11/13/2014 | Airbus

Airbus Group’s all-electric, CO2-free E-Fan aircraft has been recognised by
Popular Science magazine with the 2014 Best of What’s New Award in the
aerospace category. The editors of the publication have selected the two-seat
E-Fan – which is dedicated to pilot training – after reviewing thousands of
products in search of the top 100 technological innovations of the year.
Popular Science is the world’s largest science and technology magazine with 6.8
million monthly readers.

“It is an enormous privilege for us to receive this award from Popular Science
for the Best of What’s New Award“, said Jean Botti, Airbus Group Chief
Technical Officer. ”The E-Fan is a significant step concerning our vision for
the future of flight and we are committed to advance electric and hybrid
propulsion technology. The E-Fan is a key milestone in Airbus Group’s long-term
E-aircraft research roadmap.”

“For 27 years, Popular Science has honoured the innovations that surprise and
amaze us – those that make a positive impact on our world today and challenge
our view of what’s possible in the future,” said Cliff Ransom, Editor-in-Chief
of Popular Science. “The Best of What’s New Award is the magazine’s top honour,
and each of the 100 winners – chosen from among thousands of entrants – is a
revolution in its field.”

This award is already the second public recognition the E-Fan has received in
2014. In early August, the E-Fan received the prestigious Personal Aircraft
Design Academy (PADA) award and trophy at the AirVenture Oshkosh Airshow in the
United States. The PADA Trophy is awarded each year by the Comparative Aircraft
Flight Efficiency (CAFE) Foundation to the world’s best personal aircraft
designers and engineers.

Although the project is relatively new, having been in existence only two
years, the E-Fan demonstrator aircraft already has performed more than 60 test
flights since March 2014, including successful demonstrations at the
Farnborough International Airshow in the UK before thousands of attendees. The
aircraft creates zero emissions in flight and on the ground, with an electric
taxiing system and a significant noise level reduction, providing advantages to
airports. Next steps for the E-Fan design team include ensuring the
development, certification and production of the aircraft, for which a
production concept – the E-Fan 2.0 – has been proposed by Airbus Group and its
partners.
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Airbus Electric E-Fan Trainer Receives Popular Science Magazine's 2014 Best of
What's New Award

http://www.avweb.com/avwebflash/newthisweek/New-This-Week223098-1.html
Airbus Group's all-electric, CO2-free E-Fan aircraft has been recognized by
Popular Science magazine with the 2014 Best of What's New Award in the
aerospace category. The editors of the publication have selected the two-seat
E-Fan – which is dedicated to pilot training – after reviewing thousands of
products in search of the top 100 technological innovations of the year. The
aircraft creates zero emissions in flight and on the ground, with an electric
taxiing system and a significant noise level reduction, providing advantages to
airports.

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http://generalaviationnews.com/2014/11/13/airbus-electric-e-fan-wins-popular-science-award/

Airbus electric e-Fan wins Popular Science award
NOVEMBER 13, 2014 BY GENERAL AVIATION NEWS STAFF LEAVE A COMMENT

Airbus Group’s all-electric E-Fan aircraft has been recognized by Popular
Science magazine with the 2014 Best of What’s New Award in the aerospace
category. The two-seat E-Fan is dedicated to pilot training.

“It is an enormous privilege for us to receive this award from Popular Science
for the Best of What’s New Award,” said Jean Botti, Airbus Group Chief
Technical Officer. ”The E-Fan is a significant step concerning our vision for
the future of flight and we are committed to advance electric and hybrid
propulsion technology. The E-Fan is a key milestone in Airbus Group’s long-term
E-aircraft research roadmap.”

This award is the second public recognition the E-Fan received in 2014. In
early August, the E-Fan received the Personal Aircraft Design Academy (PADA)
award and trophy at the AirVenture Oshkosh. The PADA Trophy is awarded each
year by the Comparative Aircraft Flight Efficiency (CAFE) Foundation to the
world’s best personal aircraft designers and engineers.

Although the project is relatively new, having been in existence only two
years, the E-Fan demonstrator aircraft already has performed more than 60 test
flights since March 2014, including successful demonstrations at the
Farnborough International Airshow in the UK before thousands of attendees,
according to company officials.

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http://bestofwhatsnew.popsci.com/airbus-e-fan
AEROSPACE
AIRBUS E-FAN
An All-Electric Plane
By Eric Adams and Sophie Bushwick Posted October 31, 2014

The E-Fan is the first trainer plane built to be powered entirely by batteries:
All of the craft’s systems, including aerodynamics and safety, are designed for
quiet, emissions-free flight. Electric motors will drive two ducted fans for
about 75 minutes before the E-Fan has to land to recharge its power-dense
lithium-polymer batteries, which are built into its wings. This year’s
public-flight debut will be followed by the release of the two-seater E-Fan 2.0
in 2017. Airbus

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