US Air Force Testing Brand New $4 Million Fully Electric Aircraft
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The Rolls-Royce electric plane is sensational. Looks amazing and so much fun!
Will KC-135s now have in-flight charging cables?
The refueling plane will drop a case of Harbor Freight AA batteries.........
KC-46 or The Sunshine Band will replace it.
lol
Yes, WiFi connetion.
No just a fucking long extension cable, plugged into the smoko room
Electric supports low noise, heat & maintenance. Add a little stealth & ground-based power (fabric solar panels + batteries?), and maybe you'd have a handy 'flying jeep' etc
It is very good. All my best wishes for you and USA
Thank you ❤
This technology will change aviation positively. 🚁✈
An excellent compilation, thank you. 👍
Locally here Harbour Air has been testing a retrofit electric on a float plane. The majority of their trips are short shuttle,30-50kish which is perfect for charging between trips. The weight of battery packs has to be considered. The pilot says the torque at takeoff is quite superior!
This test is probably intended to produce a large weaponized drone from this.
What's next? Electric tank? Missile? Aircraft carrier? Spaceship?
Yes. Once upon a time ships used sails, then transitioned to steam. Ground forces used pointy sticks, and then found something better. The future belongs to those who are willing to adapt, not those who are stuck in the past.
@@hwrdgrn your review is correct, showing an development towards use of steadily increasing energy density. The future like in the past will be created by those who accept and use the laws of physics without being corrupted by ideology.
They are already there and testing other ideas.
@@hwrdgrnNo, electric vehicles aren't the future. Maybe do some research.
Only thing i dis agree with is electric comab vehicles at least until we get reliable and actually efficient way of charging them and were they can be better then gas@hwrdgrn
I recently saw a video on a plane going the complete opposite way. It had the stock Rolls rotary motor taken out and a super charged LS swapped in with a custom transmission gearing it so it could fly at 3,000 rpm and nit the usual 6 or 7000 rpm most plane motors spin at.
Another thought. Lithium Ion batteries are light and the most energy dense. However it is illegal to transport them by air on commercial airlines. How about all the fires we have seen caused by Lithium Ion batteries. Not a good feature when flying at thousands of feet.
1) Lithium batteries are carried on cargo only flights. 2)Know what else you can’t carry on commercial airlines? Missiles, grenades, bombs, etc. You see, the military can do lots of things civilians can’t.
Gasoline has 100X the energy density of a Li-Ion battery. In practical terms, that means a 737's range would be 31.6mi instead of 3160mi. That would be 90 stops for a flight from NYC to LAX.
So why can't I take a can of gasoline as my hand luggage in commercial flights then?
@@Hyposonic NOT USABLE Energy. Go do your homework....
@@darrellmcever340 As I am a designer of high-performance Li-Ion batteries, I'd love to hear your groundbreaking insights.
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FANBOY alert 😁😁😁😁
10:00 At last a clear shot of a UFO! 😅
How is the battery made and where does the power come from?
You are thinking about it too hard it's ZERO EMISSIONS!
how is fuel made and where does the power come from to make it
@@fetB details, details. Look not at the man behind the curtain.
It comes from the blood of children and is made by dark magic rituals lead by the Great Orange One.
@@fetB so you're admitting both require fossil fuels??? Nice self own. LOL Plus we have to deal with dirty batteries, lower speeds, much longer refuel times, more weight, all new infrastructure....
The main thing is always - how long can we fly for with a battery. And how to totally avoid over-heating, electrical fire, running out of juice due to wrong data about the energy level, ending in tears etc.
5:36 I have been following Beta for years. Congratulations to them f9r their hard work.
They released their transition video a few hours ago, go check it out!
Who sees a KC-135 dangling an extension cord out the rear to do a mid-air recharge? ;-)
I wonder if a TCAS like system will be incorporated into the Joby aircraft.
Someone payed off somebody!
Electric motors may have start up advantages. Where in application like elevator they do well. In a plane or drone how well does power transmission to individual user get done?
You never drove an ev? They are vastly superior.
what charges the batteries? (a diesel generator behind the building)
Solar, wind, clean energy. Don’t be stupid.
@@soaringeagle Yeah smart, because today's Armed Forces only want to operate when the sun is shining!
The plane of the future, and always will be.
Dream on
would make a great air ambulance depending on price
Hmm. Interesting video. 😊😊😊❤❤❤
It's great. I will own one, one day. 😊
Extra mileage available with an extension cable.
This is cool. But I think for now hybrid aircraft will be the best immediate answer, especially when solar power becomes more reliable.
Drones are cumbersome with their sprouting support arms for propellers. Kinda like antlers on a deer. In comparison, helicopters are compact.
They aren't drones.
Using portable diesel generators to charge EV aircraft makes complete sense to me!
What if the goal is aircrafts which are more quiet?
@@PitWChannel That's what drones are for!
Never forget: A dream is a dream. The things take time, a lot of time
They are developing fast and will be the norm in 5 years
Yeah, it needs time. But people also trying reducing time.
Not on lithium.
@@lcfflc3887 why not? But they are developing new technologies all the time. NASA has a new battery that’s impressive. But lithium puts out a lot of power fast, so it’s great for the use
Lean green killing machine, even the tree huggers are happy
Superb ! 🌟
So.. is there a tactical solar panel system that is laid out in a tactical, bomb-proof arrangement?
They will tactically push the airplane around on the ground in circles for two days to tactically recupe enough energy to then fly to the next tactical diesel generator with tactically hotwired charging plug.
10:20 If that was a real thing, I’d sell a kidney tomorrow. 😂
Maybe nuclear fueled electric planes but not rechargeable. How would you recharge hundreds at the same time and what do you do about the extended turn around times?
Yes, micro nuclear would be next level!!
All very cool but the big issue why we will not see them anytime soon is simply the power. Less than a hour flight time?
Which is more then enough for many situations, emergency helicopters often have gas for less then 45 minutes on regular missions to be able to perform in difficult conditions
I envision an aircraft propulsion system utilizing plasma jets for faster speed than propeller air propulsion. But as to whether the Air Force and the Space Force has any plans for such a situation for future air and space dominance largely depends on the kind of energy plant research for aircraft and spacecraft that is feasible.
thats one of the sexiest air planes i have ever seen
War Cenario: Please wait a minute, income missile, I have to land to charge!!!
The horse drawn carriage will never be replaced!
Yes! A flying horse could replaced airplanes. Scientist should find a way to bring back to life Pegasus and those prehistoric flying reptiles
Peguasus, and Santa's Reindeer could do much to relieve our fantasies in transpoeration. And it's amazing what Fairy Godmothers can do with pumpkins. 😀 @@ayamhitam9794
4:18 It reminds me of the Supermarine S.6B, or its successor, the Spitfire of WWII.
When they can fly from CA to the Philippines let me know.
a stratolaunch with a lifting body between the fuselages flying high, fast and efficiently while dropping empty batteries as autonomous planes would certainly make it across the pacific
it made much more sense to use electrical drives and brakes on the landing gear, to avoid using the turbines for taxiing and gain some energy when braking.
@@spxram4793 an electric a-10 would have no heat signature and the batteries would be extra armour
talk about polluting the ocean.
@@garygeorge9648 (you can land autonomous planes wherever you want them to land )
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Move us forward!!!! We could be just using power of wind. Lol
Zero emissions? Really how did you generator produce the electricity.
Can use any means to generate the electricity. wind, solar, coal, nuclear, in the future it will be fusion.
Don't be silly. All they have to do is build a wall. There's automatically electricity in every wall. Just plug in.
On that white military craft i saw only one big prop on the back. Were there two on those round wing pillars up front??
It should have 4 lift props, I think that was old footage where they were just flying the plane conventionally using just the pusher at the back, as can be seen it can be flown conventionally from an airstrip and will have VTOL capability as well.
The dream of flying cars always amuses me. While generation of lift is done with propellers of any shape or form, the noise will render the concept a non-starter. We've had 3 helicopters ferrying tourists to see a local volcano when it is active and they fly over the capital every 30 minutes or so. Just 3 of them are driving everyone nuts here. They are small 4-6 passenger light helicopters. Also consider the limits set on drone flights because the sound they make bothers people at tourist attractions (not to mention hazard of falling onto someone). All videos trying to present flying "cars" as a good idea always cut out the sound and play some gentle music instead. These things would be crazy loud if you consider they are just really big drones.
How does the graph go? A line for every year and a parallel line nine years to the right labeled "flying car"?
Mid air recharging?
How long is extension cord???
Will an e-drone have any advantage(s) over an e-helicopter-?
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thank you for the post
Colonel Diller sounds more like a DEI green energy promotion path than a serious military leader and engineer. Let's start with the logistics of a new technology rather than the new technology. So you have an electric airplane that can't be recharged in air so it needs to always return to it's base. That base will have to have the means to recharge the electric plane. So if it takes a very long time to recharge a care how much longer will it take to recharge a plane that needs perhaps 100 times the time to get it ready for its next mission than a jet. The batteries to drive an electric car increases the weight with respect to conventional cars and so that is added wear on the roads and reduces the duration of the charge. The weight of the batteries on an electric plane is far greater than on a car and so it subtracts from the payload it can carry. What about the supply, maintenance and the training needed to support an electric aircraft? You now have both jet engines to maintain and support and different fuels to run the generators to recharge the electric planes. So I always see the excitement of electric tanks, military vehicles, aircraft, etc. but I never see the supply, logistics, maintenance, or sortie rates electric anything can generate that is more than the sortie rates we have with conventional equipment. And from where does all of this electricity come to charge hundreds of thousands of military equipment? Gee, it's generators that require fossil fuels because the military can't rely on the constant supply of commercial electricity but it can rely on the constant supply of fossil fuels by multiple different methods. Maybe in the distant future the technology will allow electric vehicles to travel as far as conventional cars and there will be enough charging stations with the technology that you can recharge your EV faster than a gas station. And maybe in the future the military will have a way to recharge their electric vehicles and aircraft without using fossil fuels and can recharge them faster than they can with conventional jets. Given the history of the evolution of new technologies that will impact the entire transportation of the US and the military, I think we are still about 50 to 100 years away IF we can solve the problem of generating sufficient electricity without fossil fuels. However, places like California are shutting down fossil and nuclear fuels without having the needed wind (which is too expensive), solar (which is too expensive), and hydroelectric capacity to come close to replacing fossil and nuclear. But they have mandated in law without any evidence that alternatives can support California. Guess what, California is importing electricity from neighboring states. Gee, you would think that a State that has declared it has no use for fossil or nuclear electricity wouldn't think of importing electricity from other states who are producing electricity from fossil and nuclear. Liberals are complete morons. They only care about their agendas without considering the consequences.
wow electric planes
4:11 3000 feet is basically a half of a mile? The bar was that low for Guinness World Record people?!
I applaud the emphasis towards technological changes in the aviation industry however it will always come down to practicality. Electric isn’t ready yet, not only due to capacity but also safety. Battery design has to change dramatically to reduce risk overall. Can you please review the negatives as well. I see only the spin on the positive side of electric with your site.
4:54 This has to be the future of commercial helicopters.
where are you getting Epower on the battlefield? gas/ diesel generators. new fuel copters and tilt wings more useful and reliable.
The V-22 tilt rotor aircraft are currently grounded because they keep crashing. 😂 Where are you getting gas / diesel on a battlefield? ⛽️ It’s explosive, heavy, and expensive. 💥
How is this aircraft going to recharge in the field. Seems very impractical, unless you need to go stealth mode.
Great video flupdup
Would work if they can swap the battery after each use. Better idea for a plane than a car, like Nio.
It would make flights in volcanic ashes.🌋
What was used to make the power to charge the batteries?
I’m a pilot & I’m pretty good at it, proof being solo record in my club & winning competitions. I can say pilots are like car drivers, some good, some average & some not so good. I really can’t imagine lots of citizens of the world flying around together, would be chaos & dangerous. I guess safety systems would eventually cure that though?
Будьте осторожней, скачки температуры на высоте, могут сыграть плохую шутку с электричеством и батареей. Проверил на тесле-тележке, ездит нормально, но на температурный режим тележка никуда не годиться.
Obrigado pela informação 🙂
Where are the aircraft with windmills above the wings? I'll bet these electric expensive play toys will be good targets.
This will be about as dependable as the horrible Osprey tilt rotor
So why is the Civl Air Patrol(Air Force Auxilarry ) using Cessna aircraft made in Mexico with the fewest young pilots?
Waiting for next EMBRAER...
4:38 GOOD shape!!!
Where do they get the electricity they need on the front line of a war? It is much quicker to fuel up a plane than to recharge it.
Hot swap batteries. Shouldn't take longer than refueling. One problem is an entire infrastructure and supply chain needs to be created. Maybe a battery standard so different vehicles can share? Just my thought.
@@MarkBarrack How does that work out when the weather is super cold. Those Telsa trucks have been doing great in Rockies this winter.... /s
Pretty sure there won't be electric flying things until they come up with a light weight battery.
High Probability that Hybrid, or Plug-in Hybrid will be a "Starting Point" on that Path, Which Will allow for Multi-Mode Operations: - Pure Electric, Straight Generator, and Supplemental Generator Operational Modes. IE: Whisper Mode, Range Extended Modes, and Battery Emergency Boost Potential. (Like Nitrous, at the track!)
As the presenter said “it doesn’t have much potenrial use in the military as yet”. It’s work in progress. You need to start somewhere…
I suspect it wont be stationed in Alaska.
The LiOn battery has a very long way to go to equal the energy density to do the work of a fossil fuel.
Weight and Earth's gravity are the main enemies of flying objects. It would be a leap in technology if someone or somebody can invent anti-gravity technology to defeat Earth's gravity.
Super batteries are around the corner , then everything will change massively
This will be good for movement from point a to b😂.....
If war breaks out, I hope our enemies would be considerate and allow us at least 8 hours to charge our batteries before the fight begins.
It helps if a plane can glide to the ground.
I’ve questions people, how do you think, where there are take power for it? Coal, oil and nuclear fuel? And how are batteries produced and disposed of?
Does the place the generated the electricity have zero emissions...yes/no?
I think the military is probably interested in reducing the reliance on fuel. They don't care about the environment very much. Transporting fuel is a vulnerable and expensive part of military logistics. Reducing reliance on one specific fuel is an advantage.
I am very much in favor of new technology and innovation. There is a place for any or all electric vehicles. However electric has a big short coming, energy density. Battery technology does not have an even close energy density to carbon based fuels. Energy density in batteries will continue to improve but in my view it will be many years before it approaches that of carbon based fuels. So for a very long time there will be a market need for both. Unless great detail to safety and backup systems are payed attention to a single fuse could down an aircraft. As a former military person and an Electronic Engineering Technician, in a combat situation a fast recharge will still need to be accomplished by carbon based fuel generators mitigating the zero emission aspect. I should suggest helical toroidal propellers which would increase efficiency by about twenty percent. Keep moving ahead this is impressive technology.
You need much less energy in an electric aircraft, even todays lithium ion batteries are able to provide around one hour of flight time for electric aircraft, there are already certified electric planes out there, and they have 10 year old battery technology. As right now energy density goes up by the month, in the very near future flight times around 2 hours will be possible, which is more than enough for many tasks (short range passenger flights, emergency services, package delivery...) electric aircraft will have tremendously reduced costs per flighttime, as all the hot section engine problems go away, electric motors do not need regular maintenance, cost reduction will be HUGE !
@@hanswallner2188 Lift is determined by the shape and size of the wings. Pound for pound it takes the same amount of energy to get identical panes in the air regardless of whether it is fossil fuels or electric. "You need much less energy in an electric aircraft," is not true. Getting an aircraft in the air is not the issue maintaining flight is the issue. As you stated "lithium ion batteries are able to provide around one hour of flight time" fossil fuels have a much higher energy density, meaning they can stay in the air longer. Someday it may be a reality that we will have long range electric flight, it is not today.
You make complete sense. However, the video maker as well as a number of Pentagon brass have a hardon for this. But don't worry. Once a dozen lives are wasted in a serious situation, they will dial it all back.
Gas combustion engines will NEVER replace good ol' reliable horses and mules. NEVER.
Why are the top facing rotors being hidden from view?!
Swapping out Precharged Packs could be far quicker than Fluid Refueling.
IN MID-AIR?
@@badawesome Take a guess.
Few emissions where the craft is, but not at the power station!
Nevermind that!!!!😂
You are REALLY uninformed. the "power station" is more and more solar, wind and nuclear, if not hydro and geo thermal. AS solid state batteries improve, storage of peak and over windy and sunny days, will even it out and we can ONCE again rely on the sun- directly instead of waiting 60,000 millions of years for sun grown vegetation to turn into coal and oil. Recently one MAJOR European country experienced enough solar and wind, it could power the entire country!
@@MachinecoMachineswell we have a lot to look forward to I suppose. Until then, this is just a massive waste of time and money 😂
@@scottleggejr Yeah the horse and buggy people said that about automobiles too.
@@flyer617 no they didn't. They were thankful that their "horses" didn't get sick and need food and water anymore. This is the dumbest argument when people talk about the merits of EV vs the established standards existing today.
Can it win a war?
It’s a start
I can`t put up with continuous beat , music?
Lots of money in back door defence contracts! Cessnas are not heavy on fuel.
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Batteries just dont have the energy density. However, if you beam the power onto the craft from a C-band maser it changes the game. The best fuel is no fuel. The best battery is no battery.😁
One of the biggest reasons theyre investing in this is because of the lower weight of putting a bunch of these in that C-130 transport plane or within carriers. .Weight = fuel = money.
You really think they are lighter with all the batteries they require. EV cars are not lighter than gas fueled cars.
So, a petrol powered airplane with drained tanks weighs so very much more than a plane with batteries? What about the diesel generator that will produce the electricity for the fantastic batteries? I know, it's a rub between diesel and aviation fuel weight.
And since when does the Pentagon care about money?
Is there less heat signature
All you need is a little nuclear battery But no we can’t do that lmao
Actually, nuclear batteries already exist and have for quite some time. They are very small, safe (except for disposal). one the size needed for a watch or cell phone would or I should say does last for hundreds of years.
Just what all pilots want, inflight battey fires. Good times, JUST NUTS!
nonsense, fire risk of EVs or electric planes is much lower then with gas, you should not believe all the crap you read in some stupid big oil driven propaganda
So that plane can fly out around 100 miles and then return to be charged and maintained for a couple of hours before being used again. Maybe good for short hops but that is about all.
Seems that's about right. Beta is building out landing pads mostly in the northeast.
why doent it have solar panels on it to see how long it can fly
Beetles also feature electric flight, in the form of ionic charge. Shouldn't we copy nature? Advanced aviation doesn't need lifting surfaces.
and if a BIRD hits one of the nacelles..? No problemo ? Bc we're talking about manned 'aircraft' at lethal altitudes.
Another Green Energy Flight Contractor is in development of a rubber band powered aircraft.
interesting design but they should build a military version that runs on kerosene. Would have better power density.
And how many "carbon emissions" are produced while digging up scarce metals to produce batteries,solar panels, wind turbines and the energy to recharge said batteries?
A small fraction compared to the ressources needed by a traditional plane, same goes for EVs, they du much less environmental harm compared to ICE cars