• Dave.@aussie.zone
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    4 months ago

    An electric Dash-8 equivalent with 20-40 seats would be a game changer on regional routes.

    The engines are the highest maintenance and cost items in aircraft. Electric motors should* drastically reduce that. Regional/small use routes are often on razor thin margins, anything to improve those margins will be taken on board very quickly.

    *Perhaps battery maintenance replaces that cost with a rough equivalent, I don’t know