June 16, 2021
May 14, 2021
Ground infrastructure requirements for future hybrid-electric aviation discussed at EHATC 2021
Electric & Hybrid Aerospace Technology Virtual ‘Live’ conference took place on April 20 & 21, 2021 and provided a platform for experts that are working on developing the future of electric and hybrid aircraft technology... Continue reading
May 7, 2021
MAHEPA newsletter 2021/04 is out
The MAHEPA consortium has spent the last four years exceeding expectations, achieving milestone after milestone, and proving that zero-emission flying is possible. MAHEPA created the technological foundation to enable clean, quiet, safe, and sustainable aviation by... Continue reading
April 9, 2021
TU Delft mission simulator determines the best mission trajectory and power management for hybrid-electric aircraft
Delft University of Technology developed a mission simulator over the past year with the intention to determine the best mission trajectory and power management for both the fuel-cell aircraft (Hy4) and the hybrid-electric ICE (Panthera) aircraft. Fig. 1:... Continue reading
March 31, 2021
MAHEPA ground infrastructure requirements and Hy4 flight test campaign discussed at the EHATC
On April 20 and 21, 2021 an Electric & Hybrid Aerospace Technology Virtual ‘Live’ conference will be held to discuss the future of electric and hybrid aircraft technology. Conference topics will include the move toward... Continue reading
March 10, 2021
MAHEPA flight test results presented at E2Flight conference
This year, the MAHEPA project was presented at the E2Flight conference hosted by DLR and the University of Stuttgart. The concept behind E2Flight is to bring together research groups, universities, companies, and governmental organizations to... Continue reading
February 16, 2021
How can emission measurements affect the future of flying?
With the support of the MAHEPA project, the Institute for Energy Conversion and storage at the University of Ulm was able to build up an engine test bench for the Rotax 915 iS engine, in... Continue reading
February 9, 2021
Conquering the sky through e-mobility and zero emissions
Radical improvements have to be made to realize the vision of carbon free aircraft technology and electric flights, as well as concept studies for the construction of airplanes, energy systems and combustion engines, aspects of... Continue reading
February 3, 2021
HMI concept and prototypes for MAHEPA Panthera aircraft
The design of an Internal Combustion Engine (ICE)-Hybrid aircraft requires a specific Human Machine Interface, which allows the pilot to control and monitor the powertrain effectively, without excessive workload. To optimise the use of the... Continue reading
January 18, 2021