Skåning
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That "Powertrain Timeline" is something else.
2023 for their 500NM, 10-20 seater, then four years later a Dash-8 equivalent? Then three years after that an E195 equivalent? Five years after that an A320? If they were just building a clean sheet Jet-A powerplant and slotting it into existing types that would madness. But this is a whole new fuel system, too. Even if their technology is that scalable, that quickly, you can't do such major modifications--with novel technology, no less--at that pace.
Yeah if I would have been drinking coffee I would have spit it out seeing that graphic. You dont see hydrogen trains, ships or widespread car usage, it sure as hell wont be powering planes anytime soon. There has been so little innovation with fuel sources in aviation that it's going to continue at a glacial pace of change. I'm more under the belief that the next big propulsion leap will be Bob Lazar element 115 ish.