Electric aircraft, SAF & Iberia's Air Shuttle review (The Allplane Newsletter #112)

 

Electric Aviation

Interesting profile on Forbes of Richard Chandler, the New Zealand-born tycoon behind magniX and Eviation. LINK.

Kindly reminder that we had the, back then, CEO of magniX on the podcast!

Volotea and Air Nostrum have invested in Dante Aeronautical and its Australian venture, called Dovetail. Dante Aeronautical (whose CEO, David Doral was also a guest of the podcast!) retrofits turboprops for hybrid-electric propulsion. LINK.

Dutch electric startup Maeve received €17.5 in EU funding. Quite a lot of money, but the challenge to build a 44-seat electric aircraft is also massive. Some other players in this space, such as Heart Aerospace, had to scale down their ambitions a bit recently. LINK.

Sustainable Aviation Fuel (SAF)

Here’s another Forbes profile, this one of Bryan Sherbacow founder of Adler Fuels, which makes SAF out of biomass. LINK.

Fulcrum Bioenergy, one of the emerging players of the SAF scene, has announced it started the production of fuel using landfill waste as feedstock. So, effectively solving two problems in one go. LINK.

What else in aviation?

Flight review of Iberia’s Air Shuttle (Barcelona-Madrid) on an A320. READ.

I have started collaborating with AeroTime news and here are some of the first stories I’ve published there:

  • Airlines and NFTs: is there value behind the hype. READ

  • Air Arabia or how to build an airline empire in the shadow of the MEB3. READ

  • An overview of airline startups in the US. READ.

  • LEVEL is expanding in Barcelona. READ.

  • Iberia presented its new A350-900 NEXT with a revamped cabin and a whole range of features that enhance operational performance significantly. READ.

Turkish Airlines completed the repainting of one of its mixed-livery A350s, which was snapped from Aeroflot after the latter was sanctioned right when it was about to get the aircraft delivered. The last few months this aircraft had been operating for THY but with part of the Aeroflot livery still in place. LINK.

Air Canada is to continue sponsoring the Cirque du Soleil. The Montréal-based entertainment company had a near-death experience during the Covid lockdowns. It is not the first partnership with a major travel operator, the Cirque du Soleil has also a long-running partnership with MSC Cruises. LINK.

Condor received its eye-catching green-striped A330neo. Here is a video posted by Airbus.

Russian aviation blogger @artemairplane got a first close-up look at the first MC-21 in Rossiya livery. Here is the video he posted on Instagram.

 
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