{"id":2440,"date":"2015-07-10T00:41:14","date_gmt":"2015-07-10T03:41:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/latinaero.com\/?p=2440"},"modified":"2015-07-11T00:51:45","modified_gmt":"2015-07-11T03:51:45","slug":"airbus-all-electric-e-fan-achieves-channel-crossing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/latinaero.com\/index.php\/2015\/07\/10\/airbus-all-electric-e-fan-achieves-channel-crossing\/","title":{"rendered":"Airbus’ all-electric E-Fan achieves Channel crossing"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Didier Esteyne flying the 600kg Airbus E-Fan all-electric powered aircraft successfully crossed the English Channel (74 km) in 36 minutes on 10 July 2015, reenacting Louis Bl\u00e9riot’s historic flight of 1909. \u00a9M. Koumpanietz<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

10 July 2015, Calais, France \u2013 Airbus Group\u2019s E-Fan technology demonstrator, first exhibited during the last Paris Air Show, today became the world’s first all-electric two engine aircraft taking off by its own power to successfully cross the Channel, one century after Louis Bl\u00e9riot\u2019s epic flight on the dawn of aviation. The E-Fan\u2019s flight of 74kilometres [46 miles] between England, and Calais in France was completed in 36 minutes.<\/p>\n

The E-Fan is powered by lithium-ion batteries, which offer an increased battery capacity of 60 percent compared to the aircraft\u2019s original configuration. Flown by test pilot Didier Esteyne, the E-Fan weighs around 600 kilogrammes [1,320 pounds] and travelled at a maximum altitude of about 1,000 metres [3,500 feet].<\/p>\n

Louis Bl\u00e9riot was one of the most famous aviation pioneers of his time. He performed the Channel crossing on 25 July 1909 in his Bl\u00e9riot XI, an aircraft that not only became the record\u2013breaking aeroplane of 1909 and 1910, but also the first aircraft to be put into mass production thus launching France\u2019s aviation industry. Bleriot\u2019s company was based in Suresnes, a stone-throw from Paris, at the same site where part of the E-Fan team is today located.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe E-Fan project and today\u2019s historic Channel crossing show that the pioneering spirit and ingenuity demonstrated by Louis Bl\u00e9riot and the other early aviators is still alive today. The 10th of July 2015 will now join the list of famous days in aviation history and I\u2019m sure Bl\u00e9riot would be proud of this achievement,\u201d said Jean Botti, Airbus Group Chief Technical Officer. \u201cWe continue to embody the spirit of innovation and tackle technical challenges which both advance aerospace as we know it today and pioneer the next generation of electric and hybrid flight,\u201d added Jean Botti.<\/p>\n

By Jeanne Ndiay\u00e9<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

10 July 2015, Calais, France \u2013 Airbus Group\u2019s E-Fan technology demonstrator, first exhibited during the last Paris Air Show, today became the world’s first all-electric two engine aircraft taking off by its own power to successfully cross the Channel, one century after Louis Bl\u00e9riot\u2019s epic flight on the dawn of aviation. The E-Fan\u2019s flight of<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2442,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[67,83,84,85,86],"class_list":["post-2440","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-technology","tag-airbus","tag-e-fan","tag-electric","tag-aircraft","tag-english-channel"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/latinaero.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2440","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/latinaero.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/latinaero.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/latinaero.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/latinaero.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2440"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/latinaero.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2440\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2446,"href":"https:\/\/latinaero.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2440\/revisions\/2446"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/latinaero.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2442"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/latinaero.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2440"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/latinaero.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2440"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/latinaero.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2440"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}