eCaravan by MagniX First Test Flight on Thursday, Here's What You Need To Know
by Alec G.A new way of flying utilizing using electric aircraft might be the future of aviation with zero-emissions.
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The Future Of Aviation is Near
You may not be flying in an electric plane for decades, despite that fact, in testing the new zero-emission aircraft, the Seattle company wants you to be excited about the coming day.
MagniX is the company who is trying to excite everyone in regards to the future of aviation. The Seattle-based company specializing in electric motors is hoping to pique the interest of air travel towards zero-emissions flight.
The Cessna Caravan 208 will be using magniX's motor over Moses Lake, Washington. The airplane seats nine people and is an aircraft used to transport people and cargo since 1982. With a few modifications of the original design, magniX's goal is to prove that commercial electric flight is possible now.
In the future, it will be possible to seat 100 passengers with an engine that is powered purely by electricity.
MagniX CEO Roei Ganzarski said, "It's a niche market. But we can start now, get working on it and push the envelope to progress the entire industry," and added, "Let's get to market quickly for the main purpose of being able to start this revolution."
The Magni500 motor that will be used by the single-propeller "eCaravan" can deliver over 750 horsepower. The company is confident that it would be enough to gain propulsion for the "middle mile. " aircraft" that will carry five to 19 passengers. The 37-foot-long eCaravan would be the largest of all the electric planes to fly so far.
To be able to gauge the success of the Magni500 engine, it was already successful in terms of flight with the De Havilland Canada DHC-222 Beaver that became the very first airplane to use the engine to fly over Vancouver, British Columbia on December 10, 2019.
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High Hopes And Expectations
"Up until that point, we either saw very small electric aircraft, or you heard a lot about why it's impossible," Ganzarski said. "So it was very exciting to see an actual airline fly an actual electric aircraft."
The roadmap for MagniX will not be the only player in the game regarding the electric aviation space. Other companies like Uber promise in the future that they would be using electric air taxis and are already developing both electric motors and airframes, which they would use.
The players who would be tinkering with electric aviation are Airbus, Embraer, Rolls-Royce, Ampaire, Pipistrel Aircraft, Zunum Aero, EasyJet, and NASA. Based on the line up of companies willing to invest in electric aviation, the future might be coming sooner than expected if all goes as planned. The future looks bright for aeronautics, indeed.