The first Russian passenger aircraft on an electric motor will rise into the air, according to forecasts, no later than next year.
According to a press release from the State Fund for Advanced Studies (PFD), it is planned to test the demonstrator of a hybrid power plant with an electric motor based on high-temperature superconductivity. The technologies developed for it can be used to create various aircraft, including multi-rotor aircraft.
To date, such a motor has already been tested on high-temperature superconductors with a power of 500 kW.
A feature of superconductors is that there is a significant reduction in resistance, up to its almost complete absence.
HTS electric motors can be used in electric or hybrid power plants of local airliners, promising rotary-wing aircraft and vertical take-off and aerotaxi, the developers believe.
