New York City startup Kelekona is proposing a mass transport-sized eVTOL airbus service capable of carrying 40 people long distances.
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These are the main features Kalekona has put forward about their Airbus.
It's going to use a 3.6 megawatt-hour battery pack that's fully swappable and can be charged up in less than an hour
80% of its weight – more than 30,000 lb (13,600 kg) will be batteries
It will fly 40 passengers or 10,000 pounds of cargo up to 375 miles on a charge, at speeds around 200 mph
It will need to be flying at about 100 mph before it can support itself on its lifting body. This aircraft will be 9 feet tall with its wheels retracted in flight. Its entire body is one giant wing, which will be a 3D printed composite & aluminum.
Each of the Kelekona's eight ducted fans houses two contra-rotating propellers. Eight thrust vectoring fans with variable pitch propellers for each stage of flight - vertical takeoff, forward flight and landing.
A combination of stereo cameras and radar give Kelekona 100 miles of added environmental awareness for detection and avoidance from unknown aircraft, birdstrike, weather anomalies, and uncharted physical infrastructure.
It won't need any exotic new infrastructure; it'll land happily on standard helipads. They believe to make the journey from Los Angeles to San Francisco in one hour, and from New York to Washington DC in one hour.
Kelekona wants to skip the scale prototype stage and go straight to a full-sized airframe by 2024.
Too ambitious or not only time will tell!
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