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Leeham News and Analysis
- Dissecting Boeing CEO’s statement next new airplane will cost $50bn April 15, 2024
- Bjorn’s Corner: New engine development. Part 3. Propulsive efficiency April 12, 2024
- A350-1000 or 777-9? Part 2 April 11, 2024
- Pontifications: Boeing “transparency”–not so much. April 9, 2024
- Airbus charges and write-offs since 1999: more than €33bn April 8, 2024
Bjorn’s Corner: Sustainable Air Transport. Part 42P. eVTOL mission range. The deeper discussion.
Subscription required October 21, 2022, ©. Leeham News: This is a complementary article to Part 42, eVTOL mission range. It discusses the typical maximum range we can expect from a certified eVTOL by mid-decade. We have described the… Read More
Bjorn’s Corner: Sustainable Air Transport. Part 41. VTOL mission calculations.
October 14, 2022, ©. Leeham News: Last week, we defined the phases of an eVTOL mission that shall show us the typical range and endurance of the eVTOLs of a hybrid vectored thrust/lift and cruise eVTOL, similar to… Read More
Bjorn’s Corner: Sustainable Air Transport. Part 40. VTOL mission.
October 7, 2022, ©. Leeham News: Last week, we discussed the reality of mass fractions for certified aircraft. There is an abundance of statistics on projects that have gone through the arduous development and certification phase, which always… Read More
Bjorn’s Corner: Sustainable Air Transport. Part 39. VTOL design realities.
September 30, 2022, ©. Leeham News: Last week, we discussed how the pilot should control the eVTOLs that enter the market in three to five years. The absence of a standard for pilot interaction with the VTOL is… Read More
Bjorn’s Corner: Sustainable Air Transport. Part 38. Piloting the VTOL
September 23, 2022, ©. Leeham News: Last week, we looked into the hardware needed for the Flight Control System (FCS) of the eVTOLs in development. We could see the redundancy of the FCS had to be extensive as… Read More
Bjorn’s Corner: Sustainable Air Transport. Part 37. VTOL Flight Control.
September 16, 2022, ©. Leeham News: We discussed one of the critical systems for an eVTOL over the last weeks, the battery system, its cells, and its management system. Another critical system for a VTOL is its Flight… Read More
Bjorn’s Corner: Sustainable Air Transport. Part 36. Battery Management.
September 9, 2022, ©. Leeham News: Over the last weeks, we have discussed the cells that make up the battery system for an eVTOL. The battery system has 10,000 cells or more. All these must, on an individual… Read More
Bjorn’s Corner: Sustainable Air Transport. Part 35. Lilium battery cells.
September 2, 2022, ©. Leeham News: This is a summary of the article Part 35P, Lilium battery cells. It discusses the requirement the Lilium jet principle puts on its battery cells and how this is solved, both with… Read More
Bjorn’s Corner: Sustainable Air Transport. Part 35P. Lilium battery cells. The deeper discussion.
Subscription required September 2, 2022, ©. Leeham News: This is a complementary article to Part 35, Lilium battery cells. It discusses the requirement the Lilium jet principle puts on its battery cells and how this is solved, both… Read More
Bjorn’s Corner: Sustainable Air Transport. Part 34P. eVTOL battery cells. The deeper discussion.
Subscription required August 26, 2022, ©. Leeham News: This is a complementary article to Part 34, eVTOL battery cells. It discusses the trickiest system on an eVTOL, the battery system, and its key component, the battery cells. The… Read More