eVTOL photo gallery, an hydrogen aircraft concept and more (The Allplane Newsletter #130)
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Jenny Kavanagh is the Chief Strategy Officer at Cranfield Aerospace Solutions, a firm that plays an important role in the UK’s sustainable aviation landscape and very particularly when it comes to the development of hydrogen-powered aviation.
Electric Aviation
NASA is winding down its experimental X-57 electric aircraft project. The space agency has published a short recap of the program’s milestones. READ.
Advanced Air Mobility
Joby has presented the first aircraft coming out of its production line. It has already been cleared by the FAA to start a testing programme. READ.
Also this week, Joby raised an additional $100M from Korea’s SK Telekom. READ.
McKinsey has published its views on the state of the eVTOL industry. Advanced air mobility companies have 18,000 eVTOLs in their books, but it is unclear how many of those will materialize. The fact is that many of these are not backed by real dollar or euro payments so far (show me the money!). READ.
Photo gallery: Eight eVTOLs that were on display at the Paris Air Show.
Hydrogen Aviation
French aerospace research organisation ONERA presented a hydrogen-powered 200-seat airliner concept, which it calls Gullhyver. Interestingly it has a truss-braced wing structure, as does the new Boeing X-plane. READ.
H2FLY is preparing to test its HY4 aircraft with liquid hydrogen (so far it was using hydrogen in gaseous form). READ.
Universal Hydrogen is moving its test ground to Mojave and it ferried its experimental Dash-8 aircraft there, partly by using hydrogen as fuel. READ.
What else in aviation?
Two of my flight reviews (Icelandair and Lufthansa) feature in this AeroTime piece about the best business classes. READ.
JetBlue started its Paris flights. Amsterdam next! READ.
The story of Air Tahiti’s latest specially decorated ATR aircraft. READ.
Cargo and shipping operators are investing in their own freight airlines. READ.
Finnish startup regional air travel platform Lygg has raised €3.6M to fuel its growth. Lygg has an interesting business model that consists in matching latent regional air transport demand with operators, but through the establishment of regular routes on an on-demand basis. READ.