CURRENT TRENDS IN DESIGNING AND MANUFACTURING OF ELECTRICAL VTOL AIRCRAFT

Serafim MUNTEAN, Gheorghe OANCEA

Abstract


The article presents a review of the literature in the area of the Electrical Vertical Take-off and Landing Aircraft (eVTOL) also known as "flying machines". It will be detailed the trends of air transport development, the importance of the transition from fossil fuel to electric power and the common problems of electrical aircraft. The main aim of this paper is to present a state of the art of Electrical Vertical Take-off and Landing Aircraft performance, and this data will serve as a starting point for the designing, developing, and manufacturing of new prototype of this aircraft type. The methodology of the work is to identify the performance parameters of Electrical Vertical Take-off and Landing Aircraft, to present them and then to identify the impediments and problems existing in the current eVTOL design and manufacturing technologies. The paper also presents the current trends in this new research direction.

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