Bjorn’s Corner: Why e in ePlane shall stand for environment, Part 19. ICAO CORSIA.

April 24, 2020, ©. Leeham News: Before we wrap the series about technologies that can help us reduce the environmental footprint of air transport, we describe what the ICAO emissions scheme CORSIA is, its goals, and comment on… Read More

Bjorn’s Corner: Why e in ePlane shall stand for environment, Part 18. Low hanging fruit.

April 17, 2020, ©. Leeham News: We continue the summary of the series why e in ePlane should be more about environment focus than electric aircraft. Last week we summarized the high hanging fruit technologies pursued presently, now… Read More

Bjorn’s Corner: Why e in ePlane shall stand for environment, Part 17. High hanging fruit.

April 10, 2020, ©. Leeham News: We have since December 13, discussed why e in ePlane should not stand for electric and covered a lot of areas explaining why electric aircraft or hybrids are not the best way… Read More

Bjorn’s Corner: Why e in ePlane shall stand for environment, Part 16. Bio fuels.

April 3, 2020, ©. Leeham News: In this week’s Corner, we go deeper into bio-based carbon-neutral fuels. We described the two variants of bio-based and synthetic alternative fuels last week and gave an overview of the pros and… Read More

Bjorn’s Corner: Why e in ePlane shall stand for environment, Part 15. Carbon-neutral fuels.

March 27, 2020, ©. Leeham News: In this week’s Corner, we analyze the use of carbon-neutral fuels for airliner use. Almost all variants of carbon-neutral fuels have the “drop-in” advantage, they can replace our regular jet fuel in… Read More

Bjorn’s Corner: Why e in ePlane shall stand for environment, Part 14. Parallel Hybrid.

March 20, 2020, ©. Leeham News: In this week’s Corner, we continue our analysis of what it means for a regional airliner to go from Turbofan propulsion to Hybrid Electric propulsion. Last week, we looked at a Serial… Read More

Bjorn’s Corner: Why e in ePlane shall stand for environment, Part 13. Serial Hybrid.

March 13, 2020, ©. Leeham News: In this week’s Corner, we address an often forgotten aspect of Electric and Electric-Hybrid aircraft design. The battery as an energy source, as the only or assisting source, has the same weight… Read More

Bjorn’s Corner: Why e in ePlane shall stand for environment, Part 12. Battery risks.

March 6, 2020, ©. Leeham News: We use this week’s Corner to discuss the safety hazards a change to an Electric or Hybrid-Electric airliner introduces. The trigger is two battery fires in six weeks for the electric aircraft… Read More

Bjorn’s Corner: Why e in ePlane shall stand for environment, Part 11. More electric aircraft.

February 28, 2020, ©. Leeham News: We now look at technology developments that make sense, and can deliver real improvements in the near future. We start in this Corner with what more electric aircraft and engines can bring.

Bjorn’s Corner: Why e in ePlane shall stand for environment, Part 9. Hydrogen, cont.

February 14, 2020, ©. Leeham News: Last week we started looking at hydrogen as an alternative energy source for our air transport system. We discussed the use of hydrogen as a direct fuel replacement to jet fuel, burning… Read More