Scientists from the University of Bristol (UK) reported today on the future of aviation. Professor Ashley Dove Jay told me that after 40 years, familiar to all aircraft change dramatically.
In particular, the aircraft will not fly on kerosene, as now, but on batteries. However, it will have to find a way to make the batteries much more power than it is today – a 400 watt-hours / kilogram. Note that the maximum current capacity of the battery – only 300 W * hr / kg.
It is possible that the aircraft flight and solar powered. Another distinguishing feature of the aircraft of the future is a “soft wing.” “From now on we are not obliged to make a rigid wing with separate elements of mechanization”, scientists report.
It is worth noting that on 7 April in Switzerland ended testing “solar” aircraft Solar Impulse HB-SIA, which has made a full flight, which lasted 87 minutes at an altitude of 1200 m.
Division of Science. Spbimir.ru
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