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I once wondered why aircraft don't have electric motors (either battery or APU powered) to move them to the holding point at which point the fire up the engines
by VBprogrammer 7y ago
I once wondered why aircraft don't have electric motors (either battery or APU powered) to move them to the holding point at which point the fire up the engines. Turns out Airbus has a patent on it, it's not yet being used due to complexity / weight tradeoffs.
- zuron7 7y agoThere was this other start up which planned to use AGV to tow the planes till the take off point. Would be much simpler than trying to modify the plane itself. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/TaxiBot https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/TaxiBot