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Airbus has just unveiled a new all-electric airplane. Known as the Air Race E, it flew over the skies in Dubai during the country’s annual Airshow.<\/p>\nAirbus has just unveiled a new all-electric airplane. Known as the Air Race E, it flew over the skies in Dubai during the country’s annual Airshow.<\/p>\n
The Air Race E is part of Airbus’s long-term goal to develop an all-electric airplane. Nearly all commercial airplanes currently in operation are powered by either fuel or a combination of fuel and electricity. The Air Race E takes a different approach by featuring an all-electric design. It doesn’t use any fuel. Rather, the Air Race E is powered strictly by a battery bank, making it an environmentally friendly airplane that’s all-but-guaranteed to leave a lasting impact on the commercial aviation industry.<\/p>\n
Team Condor was the first to debut a prototype of the Air Race E at the 2019 Dubai Airshow. On Nov. 17, Team Condor flew the all-electric airplane for a little less than 10 minutes, after which it landed the Air Race E back on the tarmac. The prototype was referred to as “White Lightning” — a reference to the team’s pilot Andrew Chadwick.<\/p>\n
You might be surprised to learn that the Air Race E weighs just 375 kilograms. To put that number into perspective, that’s just 826 pounds. The Boeing 777, on the other hand, has a maximum takeoff weight of nearly 775,000 pounds. Of course, the Air Race E is much smaller than the Boeing 777. It has a wingspan of just 4.6 meters and a length of just 4 meters.<\/p>\n
The Air Race E is still under development, with Team Condor leading the project. It’s important to note that it’s not an entirely new airplane. Rather, the Air Race E is an existing fuel-powered airplane that’s being redesigned into an all-electric model.<\/p>\n
When speaking about the Air Race E, Team Condor’s Martyn Wiseman explained that there are currently aren’t any sensors available to track power usage in all-electric airplanes. As a result, they are currently using a stopwatch to determine how long the all-electric airplane can stay in the air. After flying for about eight minutes, they must bring the Air Race E back to the runway. This is a problem Team Condor must solve in order for Airbus’s new all-electric airplane to become a reality.<\/p>\n
“The problem we have today is that there\u2019s no sensor on the market at the moment. We’re relying largely on a stopwatch. We know we can run 12 minutes on a charge, so we\u2019ll fly for around eight minutes, but then we have to come down<\/em>,” explained Martyn Wiseman of Team Condor.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Airbus has just unveiled a new all-electric airplane. Known as the Air Race E, it flew over the skies in Dubai during the country’s annual Airshow. The Air Race E is part of Airbus’s long-term goal to develop an all-electric … Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1539,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1537","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-aerospace-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/monroeaerospace.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1537","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/monroeaerospace.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/monroeaerospace.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/monroeaerospace.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/monroeaerospace.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1537"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/monroeaerospace.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1537\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1543,"href":"https:\/\/monroeaerospace.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1537\/revisions\/1543"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/monroeaerospace.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1539"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/monroeaerospace.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1537"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/monroeaerospace.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1537"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/monroeaerospace.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1537"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}