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From our Founder...
In just a few short years, you’ll be booking a private chartered aircraft from an app on your phone, to fly up to 700km away, for a cost similar to present-day commercial air ticket prices. And the aircraft will be electric.
My name is Korum E, founder of FlyOnE sustainable aviation, and I am on a mission to electrify aviation in Australia. Importing the world's best electric aircraft, building Australia's electric aviation charge node network, and lobbying for policies to support decarbonisation of aircraft operations with new technologies and systems of energy management.I'm going to show you the electric aircraft that are already in operation, what the future of short-range air transport will look like and how it will affect the holiday choices people make, the employment choices people make.. And even how it will affect the value of real estate.
The electrification of existing air transport operations presents air transport operators and users two significant benefits. The first, is a massive reduction in toxic emissions. Most small 2-6 seat aircraft use 100LL Aviation fuel. The LL stands for low lead.What a lot of people don’t know, is that 100LL Aviation fuel is still quite toxic, containing .875 grams of tetra-ethyl-lead per liter.The toxic effects to humans of 100LL Aviation fuel include damage to organs through prolonged or repeated exposure from inhalation. Skin Irritation, drowsiness, dizziness, developmental delays, neurological changes and irritability. If you’ve ever wondered why old pilots seem a little off.. A lifetime of inhaling AVGAS exhaust fumes could have something to do with it.And that’s just the lead. We all know how important decarbonisation is. Environmentally and economically. Electric aircraft are just like electric cars, they emit no exhaust fumes, and the aircraft carries no liquid fuel but rather, is powered by on-board batteries charged with electrical energy. The second significant benefit of switching from AVGAS to electric is a spectacular reduction in the cost of operations.Cessna have produced over 30 000 150 and 152 aircraft. They are one of the most popular trainer aircraft in the world. A Lycoming engine Cessna 152 consumes about $50-$60 of fuel per hour of flight. The comparable electric aircraft, the Pipistrel Electro, consumes around $6 of electrical energy per hour of flight.But it’s not the reduction in energy costs that offer the greatest economic benefit.The absence of a combustion engine removes a great deal of the mechanical service costs of operating an aircraft. No more fluids, filters, hoses, spark plugs, means faster, safer scheduled service and maintenance checks. The day-to-day operating costs of an electric aircraft are around 1/10th of an equivalent combustion aircraft. The lifetime service and maintenance costs are less than half.
Most of the wear and fatigue that occurs with a traditional airframe and a combustion engine is due to vibration from the engine. Electric-powered aircraft are vibration free and made from high-quality composite materials, the hull is one solid piece with no seams or joins or rivets to work loose.So our engineers have an easier time checking the aircraft for wear at the regular service intervals.And the noise? At 500ft, the aircraft is inaudible from the ground.This will open up the opportunity for flexibility on noise abatement restrictions around populated airports. So how will electric aircraft change the transport choices people will make and how will electric aircraft change the price of your house?Firstly, the massive cost savings of electric aircraft operations will open up what is currently a small niche in aviation services, the micro charter. 4 to 6 seat aircraft charters for routes of 20-400km will radically reduce in cost. Every day people will be able to afford to charter such an aircraft regularly for an on-demand electric aircraft transport option. And businesses will be able to afford to choose direct, on-demand air transport for delivering or ordering goods.Fast forward 5 years from now.. personalised air transport is more affordable than ever before. The low cost of operations and energy means air transport companies can afford to have multiple aircraft service the same route, at varying departure times, on-demand meaning less empty seats, and less wastage of energy and pilot costs.This new wave of micro charter aviation has the potential to connect more regional areas with affordable air transport services. But wait.. There’s more... Imagine for a moment, that a lower cost, higher comfort, decarbonised air transport network is available at more affordable prices than ever before.And now imagine how much more affordable that air transport network might be if we removed the cost of the pilot.But I'm not talking about autonomous flight. All our research indicates that fully autonomous passenger transport may not take hold. Regardless of whether the technology is safe enough, the fact is that people just cannot be trusted to conduct themselves in a safe and civil manner without the supervision of a pilot in command. Even then.. They can be challenging.Our vision of the electric aviation future in Australia includes a network of on-demand zero-emissions aircraft, available pay-per-use, where the passenger can also be the pilot. At present, there are already over 30 thousand pilots in Australia, most of which are capable of safely operating an electric aircraft with passengers on the network of charge nodes we are building at regional and metro airports in Australia.The lower cost of electric aircraft operations also translates to a reduction in operating costs for flight training schools. Our current flight school training partners are already training new pilots in the Pipistrel Alpha Electro electric trainer aircraft and enjoying the lower cost of business. In turn we are able to offer more competitive rates of training than other non-electrified flight schools to create even more pilots for our electric aviation future.Electric aircraft are also much nicer to fly. The aforementioned lack of vibration makes for a much nicer flight experience, as does the absence of toxic lead laden exhaust fumes and noise.These attributes also make electric aircraft a more attractive option for ecological surveying and operation in and around agricultural regions.New pilots training in a new generation of lower-cost electric aircraft will be perfectly prepared to access them on our growing network of charge nodes for personal transport and recreation purposes. But how is all this going to change the price of real estate?Well. It’s no secret property value has a lot to do with location, location, location. The proximity of real estate to a city center or desirable area commands a certain value. The new generation of electric aircraft however will dissolve this value structure. Our aircraft development partners are in the process of testing, now, 2 seat vertical take off and landing personal electric aircraft that don’t require an airport to operate from. FlyOnE has partnered with Air EV, an Israeli aviation company that is manufacturing the Air ONE, which will likely be the first practical eVTOL to market. This short video is of a recent hover test flight by the team at Air EV. ( Watch Video 1 min https://youtu.be/vCVNresH_Tk?list=PLxB8zdP4Y3zm_qwYFsBUu-RjleeE3KU2V ) Electric aviators will be able to travel directly, point to point, in these types of aircraft, circumventing ground traffic conditions, bodies of water, mountains, high-density metropolitan areas. For instance, with a fast and direct personal air transport method, one can enjoy easy access to a city lifestyle or a coastal lifestyle, while living 50km away in a more modestly priced area. OR in a beautiful rural area, but still with easy city access regardless of ground transport availability.The pandemic forced a major shift in work behavior and the traditional office space. Future transport technologies will further dilute traditional work spaces, allowing personnel and professionals to access more locations quickly and easily. TimelineSo where are we now? Well, we’re actually in the thick of the beginning of the electric aircraft revolution. 1st generation electric aircraft are flying now, we have multiple aircraft operating in Australia with flight school partners and private recreational aviators.The first-to-market electric aircraft was the amazing PipistrelElectro, a highly capable sports plane and trainer aircraft built in Slovenia. It has set the bar for all future manufacturers as a very high quality and highly capable aircraft and is the electric plane now being used with early adopter flight schools in Australia.(Watch Video - 30 sec Velis Electro Electric Aircraft now available from FlyOnE ) Second generation electric aircraft such as the Diamond eDA40 will have a greater range and bigger payload capacity (Watch Video - 1 min Diamond Aircraft eDA40 All-Electric Aircraft ) 3rd Generation electric aircraft such as the Eviation Alice will start meeting substantial payload and range capabilities(Watch Video - 1 min https://youtu.be/qjPO4_oe5h8 )Aren't all these electric aircraft wonderful! But there's a catch. As we get bigger and bigger electric aircraft, airports will have larger and larger power demands to re charge them. And of course, there is the issue of range and endurance.Some of the electric aircraft due to enter service before 2030 will require up to 2 MEGAWATTS of power to recharge. Far more than any airport grid can supply today.To give you some context, 2 megawatts is enough electricity to power about 1600 homes.To support the transition from fossil fuel energy and delivery systems, we need to build a new generation of renewable airports, with renewable energy capture and storage, with specifically designed battery and charge delivery systems.Despite these energy delivery systems, we still have a substantial on-board energy storage challenge to overcome .At present, the heavy duty, highly reliable batteries that are used in road vehicles and early electric aircraft have an energy density of around 200Wh per Kilogram. While there are higher capacity batteries available, at today's level of technology they are less stable, cost prohibitive or have shorter duty cycles. To compare to fossil fuel energy, the toxic lead-laden aviation fuel I mentioned earlier has an energy density of 12000Wh per Kilogram. That's around 60 times more energy dense than today's batteries. This is crucial because the weight of fuel for an aircraft is an important parameter in determining its range.So at present, our air operations are limited by this onboard energy density. This means that early electric aircraft need to be especially light, small and efficient. As battery technology develops, an increase in battery energy density will increase range and payload options in the electric aircraft of today and tomorrow.
While this is a restricting factor, it is by no means a new challenge for commercial aviation. In 1935, Qantas, in partnership with Imperial Airways, opened a London to Brisbane air transport route of 20235 km flying the De Havilland 86The Kangaroo route as it is still known today, took 12 and half days, had 10 overnight stops, and cost close to $20 000 per passenger in today's money.In 1974, Qantas offered a service from Perth to London in the Boeing 707 with a single stop in Bombay.New propulsion technologies need time to evolve. Despite these two aircraft using the same energy source.. Fossil fuel, it took almost 40 years of refinement to convert that energy to motion in a way that could achieve a more comfortable long range transport option for the customer.Using battery electric energy for motion is a good idea. It’s clean, renewable, recyclable and has a very bright future of potential as clever people find more ways to evolve and refine the technology to make the most of its conversion to motion.But it will take large-scale adoption before the economics of scale start driving rapid evolution to achieve the sort of energy to motion ratios we have become accustomed to with Fossil Fuels.Regional networks of charge nodes will allow efficient 5-9 seat electric aircraft to service short range routes of up to 700km. Aircraft on routes of 700 kilometers or less emit more carbon dioxide per person for every kilometer traveled than long-haul flights: 251 grams per km for short haul compared to 195 g/km for long haul. That’s due to the fact that take-off and landing uses the most fuel, making level flight over whatever distance relatively cleaner. 85% of the regional routes flown in Europe today are under 750km in distance and could easily be serviced by modern, light weight, high efficiency electric aircraft with today's battery technology. Electron Aerospace, one of our manufacturing partners, have one such aircraft, the Electron 5, of which we have ordered 28 to enter service in Australia in 2027
The air transport network of the future may look a bit different to today, with a synergy of various electric air transport solutions working in harmony for a more customer-centric transport system. Here is a visualisation of how we see air transport hubs taking shape in regional areas before the end of the decade. (Watch video - 2.38 Min Electric Aircraft airport of the future, Lilypad Elevate, by FlyOnE. )There is no doubt that we still have a long way to go to see a meaningful change in the decarbonisation of aviation.And electric aircraft won't solve all the world's emissions problems. But the change has begun. New transitional technologies are already taking hold and as we build and grow Australia's electric aviation charge node network, we can reach more of the population, connecting regional centers and metropolitan areas with decarbonised affordable on-demand air transport.
Korum EllisFounder of FlyOnE Sustainable aviation
The electrification of existing air transport operations presents air transport operators and users two significant benefits. The first, is a massive reduction in toxic emissions. Most small 2-6 seat aircraft use 100LL Aviation fuel. The LL stands for low lead.What a lot of people don’t know, is that 100LL Aviation fuel is still quite toxic, containing .875 grams of tetra-ethyl-lead per liter.The toxic effects to humans of 100LL Aviation fuel include damage to organs through prolonged or repeated exposure from inhalation. Skin Irritation, drowsiness, dizziness, developmental delays, neurological changes and irritability. If you’ve ever wondered why old pilots seem a little off.. A lifetime of inhaling AVGAS exhaust fumes could have something to do with it.And that’s just the lead. We all know how important decarbonisation is. Environmentally and economically. Electric aircraft are just like electric cars, they emit no exhaust fumes, and the aircraft carries no liquid fuel but rather, is powered by on-board batteries charged with electrical energy. The second significant benefit of switching from AVGAS to electric is a spectacular reduction in the cost of operations.Cessna have produced over 30 000 150 and 152 aircraft. They are one of the most popular trainer aircraft in the world. A Lycoming engine Cessna 152 consumes about $50-$60 of fuel per hour of flight. The comparable electric aircraft, the Pipistrel Electro, consumes around $6 of electrical energy per hour of flight.But it’s not the reduction in energy costs that offer the greatest economic benefit.The absence of a combustion engine removes a great deal of the mechanical service costs of operating an aircraft. No more fluids, filters, hoses, spark plugs, means faster, safer scheduled service and maintenance checks. The day-to-day operating costs of an electric aircraft are around 1/10th of an equivalent combustion aircraft. The lifetime service and maintenance costs are less than half.
Most of the wear and fatigue that occurs with a traditional airframe and a combustion engine is due to vibration from the engine. Electric-powered aircraft are vibration free and made from high-quality composite materials, the hull is one solid piece with no seams or joins or rivets to work loose.So our engineers have an easier time checking the aircraft for wear at the regular service intervals.And the noise? At 500ft, the aircraft is inaudible from the ground.This will open up the opportunity for flexibility on noise abatement restrictions around populated airports. So how will electric aircraft change the transport choices people will make and how will electric aircraft change the price of your house?Firstly, the massive cost savings of electric aircraft operations will open up what is currently a small niche in aviation services, the micro charter. 4 to 6 seat aircraft charters for routes of 20-400km will radically reduce in cost. Every day people will be able to afford to charter such an aircraft regularly for an on-demand electric aircraft transport option. And businesses will be able to afford to choose direct, on-demand air transport for delivering or ordering goods.Fast forward 5 years from now.. personalised air transport is more affordable than ever before. The low cost of operations and energy means air transport companies can afford to have multiple aircraft service the same route, at varying departure times, on-demand meaning less empty seats, and less wastage of energy and pilot costs.This new wave of micro charter aviation has the potential to connect more regional areas with affordable air transport services. But wait.. There’s more... Imagine for a moment, that a lower cost, higher comfort, decarbonised air transport network is available at more affordable prices than ever before.And now imagine how much more affordable that air transport network might be if we removed the cost of the pilot.But I'm not talking about autonomous flight. All our research indicates that fully autonomous passenger transport may not take hold. Regardless of whether the technology is safe enough, the fact is that people just cannot be trusted to conduct themselves in a safe and civil manner without the supervision of a pilot in command. Even then.. They can be challenging.Our vision of the electric aviation future in Australia includes a network of on-demand zero-emissions aircraft, available pay-per-use, where the passenger can also be the pilot. At present, there are already over 30 thousand pilots in Australia, most of which are capable of safely operating an electric aircraft with passengers on the network of charge nodes we are building at regional and metro airports in Australia.The lower cost of electric aircraft operations also translates to a reduction in operating costs for flight training schools. Our current flight school training partners are already training new pilots in the Pipistrel Alpha Electro electric trainer aircraft and enjoying the lower cost of business. In turn we are able to offer more competitive rates of training than other non-electrified flight schools to create even more pilots for our electric aviation future.Electric aircraft are also much nicer to fly. The aforementioned lack of vibration makes for a much nicer flight experience, as does the absence of toxic lead laden exhaust fumes and noise.These attributes also make electric aircraft a more attractive option for ecological surveying and operation in and around agricultural regions.New pilots training in a new generation of lower-cost electric aircraft will be perfectly prepared to access them on our growing network of charge nodes for personal transport and recreation purposes. But how is all this going to change the price of real estate?Well. It’s no secret property value has a lot to do with location, location, location. The proximity of real estate to a city center or desirable area commands a certain value. The new generation of electric aircraft however will dissolve this value structure. Our aircraft development partners are in the process of testing, now, 2 seat vertical take off and landing personal electric aircraft that don’t require an airport to operate from. FlyOnE has partnered with Air EV, an Israeli aviation company that is manufacturing the Air ONE, which will likely be the first practical eVTOL to market. This short video is of a recent hover test flight by the team at Air EV. ( Watch Video 1 min https://youtu.be/vCVNresH_Tk?list=PLxB8zdP4Y3zm_qwYFsBUu-RjleeE3KU2V ) Electric aviators will be able to travel directly, point to point, in these types of aircraft, circumventing ground traffic conditions, bodies of water, mountains, high-density metropolitan areas. For instance, with a fast and direct personal air transport method, one can enjoy easy access to a city lifestyle or a coastal lifestyle, while living 50km away in a more modestly priced area. OR in a beautiful rural area, but still with easy city access regardless of ground transport availability.The pandemic forced a major shift in work behavior and the traditional office space. Future transport technologies will further dilute traditional work spaces, allowing personnel and professionals to access more locations quickly and easily. TimelineSo where are we now? Well, we’re actually in the thick of the beginning of the electric aircraft revolution. 1st generation electric aircraft are flying now, we have multiple aircraft operating in Australia with flight school partners and private recreational aviators.The first-to-market electric aircraft was the amazing PipistrelElectro, a highly capable sports plane and trainer aircraft built in Slovenia. It has set the bar for all future manufacturers as a very high quality and highly capable aircraft and is the electric plane now being used with early adopter flight schools in Australia.(Watch Video - 30 sec Velis Electro Electric Aircraft now available from FlyOnE ) Second generation electric aircraft such as the Diamond eDA40 will have a greater range and bigger payload capacity (Watch Video - 1 min Diamond Aircraft eDA40 All-Electric Aircraft ) 3rd Generation electric aircraft such as the Eviation Alice will start meeting substantial payload and range capabilities(Watch Video - 1 min https://youtu.be/qjPO4_oe5h8 )Aren't all these electric aircraft wonderful! But there's a catch. As we get bigger and bigger electric aircraft, airports will have larger and larger power demands to re charge them. And of course, there is the issue of range and endurance.Some of the electric aircraft due to enter service before 2030 will require up to 2 MEGAWATTS of power to recharge. Far more than any airport grid can supply today.To give you some context, 2 megawatts is enough electricity to power about 1600 homes.To support the transition from fossil fuel energy and delivery systems, we need to build a new generation of renewable airports, with renewable energy capture and storage, with specifically designed battery and charge delivery systems.Despite these energy delivery systems, we still have a substantial on-board energy storage challenge to overcome .At present, the heavy duty, highly reliable batteries that are used in road vehicles and early electric aircraft have an energy density of around 200Wh per Kilogram. While there are higher capacity batteries available, at today's level of technology they are less stable, cost prohibitive or have shorter duty cycles. To compare to fossil fuel energy, the toxic lead-laden aviation fuel I mentioned earlier has an energy density of 12000Wh per Kilogram. That's around 60 times more energy dense than today's batteries. This is crucial because the weight of fuel for an aircraft is an important parameter in determining its range.So at present, our air operations are limited by this onboard energy density. This means that early electric aircraft need to be especially light, small and efficient. As battery technology develops, an increase in battery energy density will increase range and payload options in the electric aircraft of today and tomorrow.
While this is a restricting factor, it is by no means a new challenge for commercial aviation. In 1935, Qantas, in partnership with Imperial Airways, opened a London to Brisbane air transport route of 20235 km flying the De Havilland 86The Kangaroo route as it is still known today, took 12 and half days, had 10 overnight stops, and cost close to $20 000 per passenger in today's money.In 1974, Qantas offered a service from Perth to London in the Boeing 707 with a single stop in Bombay.New propulsion technologies need time to evolve. Despite these two aircraft using the same energy source.. Fossil fuel, it took almost 40 years of refinement to convert that energy to motion in a way that could achieve a more comfortable long range transport option for the customer.Using battery electric energy for motion is a good idea. It’s clean, renewable, recyclable and has a very bright future of potential as clever people find more ways to evolve and refine the technology to make the most of its conversion to motion.But it will take large-scale adoption before the economics of scale start driving rapid evolution to achieve the sort of energy to motion ratios we have become accustomed to with Fossil Fuels.Regional networks of charge nodes will allow efficient 5-9 seat electric aircraft to service short range routes of up to 700km. Aircraft on routes of 700 kilometers or less emit more carbon dioxide per person for every kilometer traveled than long-haul flights: 251 grams per km for short haul compared to 195 g/km for long haul. That’s due to the fact that take-off and landing uses the most fuel, making level flight over whatever distance relatively cleaner. 85% of the regional routes flown in Europe today are under 750km in distance and could easily be serviced by modern, light weight, high efficiency electric aircraft with today's battery technology. Electron Aerospace, one of our manufacturing partners, have one such aircraft, the Electron 5, of which we have ordered 28 to enter service in Australia in 2027
The air transport network of the future may look a bit different to today, with a synergy of various electric air transport solutions working in harmony for a more customer-centric transport system. Here is a visualisation of how we see air transport hubs taking shape in regional areas before the end of the decade. (Watch video - 2.38 Min Electric Aircraft airport of the future, Lilypad Elevate, by FlyOnE. )There is no doubt that we still have a long way to go to see a meaningful change in the decarbonisation of aviation.And electric aircraft won't solve all the world's emissions problems. But the change has begun. New transitional technologies are already taking hold and as we build and grow Australia's electric aviation charge node network, we can reach more of the population, connecting regional centers and metropolitan areas with decarbonised affordable on-demand air transport.
Korum EllisFounder of FlyOnE Sustainable aviation
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