PPRuNe Forums - View Single Post - Solar Impulse
Thread: Solar Impulse
View Single Post
Old 29th Apr 2016, 07:18
  #34 (permalink)  
DaveReidUK
 
Join Date: Jan 2008
Location: Reading, UK
Posts: 15,826
Received 206 Likes on 94 Posts
Neat approach.

Dividing that per-aircraft value by 4 gives a per-engine figure of around 16 MW in the cruise.

Interestingly, that's almost identical to NASA's value for the 747/JT9D - maybe they did their sums with a Shuttle on top.
DaveReidUK is offline  
Reply