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>> "...swapping wings..." If you were going to do this, you wouldn't swap wings. Instead, you'd swap passenger compartments in and out of various airframes, pr
by avn2109 10y ago
>> "...swapping wings..."
If you were going to do this, you wouldn't swap wings. Instead, you'd swap passenger compartments in and out of various airframes, probably with some kind of automated gantry. This would reduce airfield turnaround times by allowing boarding to be finished before deplaning begins and by removing baggage handling from the critical path of getting the plane back in the air.
Then the batteries would be charged during maintenance on the tarmac or in a hangar. Though overall I'm a skeptic of electrical aviation.
- anexprogrammer 10y agoWhether the economics of having two or more airframes would work remains to be seen. That's two of all the expensive bits. I can see short haul, lower speed routes working with less radical battery approaches. Probably have to have multiple battery locations per plane for weight and balance. I'm incredibly sceptical of SST and replacing Concorde.