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France: the first electric aircraft flew over the Channel LaManche
airplane with a length of over 6 meters and weighing almost 600 kg flew over the English Channel a few hours after that, when the French pilot made a similar flight by plane with electric drive. Both flights are seen as symbolically important step towards the use of electric airplanes in the future.
The safety pilot watched helicopters and rescue boats.
Select the flight route was not accidental. In 1909, French pilot Louis Bleriot first flew over the English Channel to qualify for a £ 1000 prize offered by the British newspaper “Daily Mail”.
On Thursday evening Frenchman Hugues Duval, piloting single, twin-engine electric plane Cicri, flew from Dover in Britain to Calais in France. The machine weighs 100 kg and according to the pilot reaches a speed of 150 km / h.
According to Duval’s successful flight is an important crowning moment of years of work on the machine.
E-fan made its maiden flight in March 2014 and since then rose into the air 100 times, most recently last month during the Paris International Air Show. Airbus plans to start selling this plane in 2017. According to the assumptions would serve mainly to train novice pilots.
Several aviation companies in different countries are developing their own projects electric airplanes in the hope that they will become in the future ecological alternative to conventional driven machines.
Electric Aircraft is a very young branch of the aviation industry. Not yet been established for them full safety standards. Above the test flight program operated jointly by authorities Airbus and the French civil aviation board.
The current version of the E-fan has only two seats, but Airbus is planning to increase the model. “Our goal is to construct a future hybrid electric aircraft being able to accommodate a hundred passengers,” – said the head of the technical team of Jean Botti. He added that this plan could be implemented in the next 15 years.
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