hybrid helicopter Archives – The Green Optimistic green tech news, since 2008 Wed, 30 Apr 2008 13:14:42 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 2667534 Hybrid Electric Aircraft to Take Off by 2009 https://www.greenoptimistic.com/hybrid-electric-aircraft-to-take-off-by-2009-20080430/ https://www.greenoptimistic.com/hybrid-electric-aircraft-to-take-off-by-2009-20080430/#respond Wed, 30 Apr 2008 13:14:42 +0000 https://www.greenoptimistic.com/?p=317 Falx Air Vehicles, from Staffordshire, UK, will release commercially a tilt-rotor hybrid airplane by the end of 2009. The tilt-rotor concept is present in the aviation since the 1950’s, but there haven’t been any breakthroughs in this area yet. Still, Falx puts a 100hp combustion engine on it, a powerful solar array, and an electric […]

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