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Old 24th February 2020 | 10:58
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Originally Posted by bellblade2014
Common mode failures including software, EMI, HIRF, Lightning (IEL in particular), and latent manufacturing defect will all be tough to meet for this application.

The energy efficiency argument is tricky though...
Fully agree on all points. But as stated earlier, EDAT is a good baby step for electric distributed propulsion. Because if you can’t do an electric tail rotor requiring only 1×E-7, how will you ever do an all electric EVTOL requiring a probability of failure better than 1XE-9?


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