Er elfly "over hyped"? Jeg tror det. Det samme gjelder AAM hvor lobbykrefter har hausset dette voldsomt opp. De har enda ikke levert. (Red.)
Loganair Skeptical Of Electric Aircraft
Potential
Victoria Moores March 01, 2023
Loganair Britten Norman Islander
Credit: Loganair
Loganair CEO
Jonathan Hinkles believes hydrogen propulsion is likely to mature quicker than
electric aviation, despite his airline operating short-sector lengths tipped
most likely to benefit from electric-aircraft technologies.
“We’ve been
doing an awful lot of work around this,” Hinkles said, speaking at a recent
Aviation Club lunch in London. “The challenges that we see on the electrical
side of the industry at the moment are having sufficient range.”
Loganair
operates the shortest scheduled flight in the world, which is a 1.5-mile flight
from Westray to Papa Westray in the Scottish Orkney Islands, lasting just two
minutes.
“We fly very
short flights within the Orkney Islands. The longest is 17 minutes; the
shortest is two,” Hinkles said. However, Loganair has to carry sufficient fuel
reserves for a 50-minute diversion from the Orkney capital of Kirkwall to
Aberdeen.
“The
duration that you need on the batteries is vastly different than just that for
the short hop itself,” he said. “That’s the barrier that we’ve got to overcome.
If I was a betting person, I would actually say that I think hydrogen power
will be in commercial use far earlier and far faster than the electric, purely
and simply because of this.”
For Hinkles,
the problem is the physics of getting enough battery power onto the aircraft to
be able to work with it.
Likewise,
Conor McCarthy—founder and CEO of Irish regional Emerald Airlines—does not
believe battery technologies will mature quickly enough to give the
power-to-weight ratio needed for commercial regional flying.
“I don’t
really believe in the electric piece,” McCarthy said, speaking to Aviation
Daily in late 2022. “I’m more of a believer that hydrogen will probably be
first, but I won’t be first with hydrogen.”
Air
Greenland CEO Jacob Nitter Sørensen also said he is unlikely to take up on the
first generation of electric aircraft, but he said these projects give hope for
the future of the industry.
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