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Periskopi(4 years ago)
(4 years ago)Alice, a plane developed by the Israeli company Evivation, passed on the test engine last week, at Arlington Airport north of Seattle. According to Eviation CEO Omer Bar-Yohay, Alice is just weeks away from her first flight. With battery technology similar to that of an electric vehicle or a mobile phone [...]
With battery technology similar to that of an electric vehicle or a cell phone and 30 minutes of charge, Alice with nine passengers will be able to fly for an hour and about 440 nautical miles. The company, focused exclusively on air travel, hopes that electric planes, which can adjust 20 to 40 passengers, will be a reality in seven to 10 years.
A prototype of the aircraft, which debuted in 2019, has passed through low-speed taxi tests since December and will test a high-speed taxi test in the coming weeks. On these tests, the aircraft is sent to the runway at different speeds to test its power and allow ground teams to monitor systems such as direction, containment and anti-screech. Although the company initially intended for Alice to fly before 2022, poor weather conditions in the northwest Pacific at the end of the year prevented testing.
