It allows more hybrid planes to have more propulsion sources, freeing plane designers to rethink even the basics of aircraft design. That’s unlike traditional turboprop engines that need a separate turbine for every propeller. “Hybridization enables distributed propulsion, where you have one turbine turning multiple propellers on an aircraft,” says Craig Hoover, GE Aviation’s hybrid-electric pursuits leader for its business and general aviation unit. It’s the first step in what GE Aviation expects will be a journey that hopes to bring a new, differentiating product to the business and general aviation market. At the EAA AirVenture Oshkosh airshow Tuesday, GE Aviation said it signed a deal with XTI Aircraft Company to use GE’s Catalyst engine as the core of a new hybrid-electric propulsion system for a planned XTI business aircraft, the TriFan 600. ![]() ![]() Hybrid planes are moving closer to takeoff.
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