common knowledge. Airbus supply chain stretched all over Europe.
Germany , UK , Spain are the major suppliers.
Chinese Aviation Industry
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Germany , UK , Spain are the major suppliers.
CATL Says Its Batteries Are Dense Enough to Power Electric Planes.
“CATL’s condensed battery leverages highly conductive biomimetic condensed state electrolytes to construct a micron-level self-adaptive net structure that can adjust the interactive forces among the chains,” the company says, “thus improving the conductive performance of the cells and, in turn, the efficiency of lithium ion transporting while boosting stability of the microstructure.”By integrating ultra-high density cathode materials, new anode materials, separators, and a fresh manufacturing process, the company claims their battery technology results in a high performance level for both charge and discharge—all done in a safe manner.
CATL says it has partners in the “development of electric passenger aircrafts” and claims to be testing the batteries for application in the aviation, all while planning the launch of an mass-produced automotive-grade version of the condensed batteries later this year.
China Flies Subscale Blended Wing Body Airliner Concept
China’s Northwestern Polytechnical University has flown a subscale model of a 300-330-seat blended wing body (BWB) airliner concept, the BWB-300, designed in collaboration with commercial aircraft manufacturer Comac. The 10.3%-scale model was flown autonomously from the UAV flight-test center at Jingbian in Shaanxi Province on Jan. 30. A team led by the university has been researching the BWB concept since the late 1990s, and development of the design began in 2017.The low-speed model appears similar in size to the X-48B demonstrator, an 8.5%-scale model of a 450-seat BWB flown by Boeing and NASA in 2007, and is larger than the Maveric demonstrator, a subscale model of a 200-seat BWB airliner flown by Airbus in 2020.
The university says the Chinese team plans to focus next on structural design and noise reduction and development of concepts for electric- and hydrogen-powered BWBs with distributed propulsion. Under Airbus’ ZEROe zero-emission aircraft initiative, the Maveric concept is a longer-term candidate for a hydrogen-powered airliner because of the large internal volume provided by a BWB design.
An oldie but a goodie. My bet is there is going to be a lot of skepticism about these stories.
200m max altitude... not enough for ballistic chute. These will need good system redundacy, failure is death.
