Electric Flight Demonstrator (artist's impression)
Electric Flight Demonstrator (artist's impression)
Electric flight opens up completely new possibilities for drastically reducing pollutant emissions from aircraft and significantly reducing noise pollution. In addition, electric propulsion systems enable completely new aircraft configurations, which should further reduce fuel consumption and thus emissions. To this end, DLR is conducting research into hybrid-electric aircraft, which could represent an important building block in the air transport of the future. A Dornier 228 aircraft serves as a flight demonstrator.
