{"id":12206,"date":"2019-08-08T22:26:42","date_gmt":"2019-08-09T05:26:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cafe.foundation\/blog\/?p=12206"},"modified":"2019-08-09T05:33:49","modified_gmt":"2019-08-09T12:33:49","slug":"atea-looks-like-a-cessna-overhead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cafe.foundation\/blog\/atea-looks-like-a-cessna-overhead\/","title":{"rendered":"Atea Looks Like a Cessna Overhead"},"content":{"rendered":"

French company Ascendance Flight Technologies offers a four-seat design that combines hybrid propulsion with vertical takeoff and landing capabilities, and then scoots around on conventional wings.\u00a0 Etea’s technology seems a lot like that of Pipistrel\u2019s 801 or several other eVTOLs.<\/p>\n

Some Historical Perspective<\/strong><\/h4>\n

The design team at Ascendance comes from Airbus, and claims to have made the first electric aircraft flight across the English Channel with the E-Fan 2.0.\u00a0 Your editor offers a few minor inclusions.<\/p>\n

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Ascendance founders with model of their creation – enthusiastic, to say the least<\/p><\/div>\n

First, as we reported on October 10, 2009<\/a>, \u201cGerard Thevenot, a long-time championship-level hang-glider pilot, celebrated the centennial of Louis Bleriot\u2019s flight across la Manche by flying his hydrogen-powered\u00a0La Mouette hang glider<\/a> over roughly the same route Bleriot took between Calais and Dover on August 6, 2009.\u00a0 Missing the centenary by a few days (Bleriot made the hop on July 25, 1909), Thevenot took an hour and seven minutes to duplicate the trip Bleriot managed in 37 minutes.\u201d\u00a0 It was an Eck\/Geiger propelled machine, powered by H2.<\/p>\n

Six years later, we reported the following:<\/a><\/p>\n

\u201cMichael Coates, the U. S. General Distributor for Pipistrel Aircraft, sent the following missive from Ivo Boscarol, General Manager and Founder of the Slovenian company, now in its 26<\/em>th\u00a0<\/sup>year.<\/em><\/p>\n

\u2018Dear All,<\/em><\/p>\n

\u2018It is my pleasure to inform you that our friend Hugues Duval after reading the information that Pipistrel was blocked in flying across the English Channel today became the first electric aircraft to cross the English Channel in his CRI-CRI E-Crista<\/em>line Electric aircraft.<\/em><\/p>\n