Cape air to try electric

"gmporschenut also a fan of hondas" (gmporschenut) 08/08/2019 at 10:05 • Filed to: Planelopnik

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facw > gmporschenut also a fan of hondas 08/08/2019 at 10:09

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Definitely a cool looking plane:

Will be interested to see how it works out for them. I don’t think it can scale to “real” airlines, but for a hyper-regional airline like Cape Air, it seems like it could make sense.

Bman76 (hates WS6 hoods, is on his phone and has 4 burners now) > gmporschenut also a fan of hondas 08/08/2019 at 10:20

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Looks like a scaled up Bugatti Model 100

Cé hé sin > Bman76 (hates WS6 hoods, is on his phone and has 4 burners now) 08/08/2019 at 10:38

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Hopefully with added lack of crashing.

WilliamsSW > Bman76 (hates WS6 hoods, is on his phone and has 4 burners now) 08/08/2019 at 10:53

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That doesn’t make me feel confident about this plan at all.  

facw > WilliamsSW 08/08/2019 at 10:54

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I mean I assume Alice is fly-by-wire with computer controlled stability, which should help. 

TheTurbochargedSquirrel > gmporschenut also a fan of hondas 08/08/2019 at 11:07

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2 year flight life on the batteries? Either the company making the planes or the FAA is being super conservative about the reliability of the batteries. Yes, they are going to see degredation with time but you would think there would be a deratting curve that would allow you to operate them with a decreasing range rating for quite a while.

If only EssExTee could be so grossly incandescent > gmporschenut also a fan of hondas 08/08/2019 at 11:10

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Cape Air has been struggling along with a fleet of jalopies for decades. Where the hell did they get the capital for this???

Bman76 (hates WS6 hoods, is on his phone and has 4 burners now) > Cé hé sin 08/08/2019 at 11:49

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I mean, I probably wouldn’t have designed my electric plane as a taildragger in 2019, but I’m also not an  engineer.

gmporschenut also a fan of hondas > If only EssExTee could be so grossly incandescent 08/08/2019 at 12:27

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It says they have a fleet of almost 100 aircraft. The cessnas are piston powered and thus have a really low service interval, so that could be a huge savings in reducing fleet size and maintenance costs

gmporschenut also a fan of hondas > TheTurbochargedSquirrel 08/08/2019 at 20:54

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Given that it is the first, I would guess teh FAA has a high factor of safety on the reliability. Similar to ETOPS, they can always extend it in the future.