UAC thinking of building plane with alternative engines - vice-president
NOVOSIBIRSK. May 3 (Interfax-AVN) - The United Aircraft Corporation (UAC) is interested in the development of planes with alternative engine types, including electric ones, Sergei Korotkov, UAC vice-president on innovations, said on Wednesday.
"We understand today that any engine, a turboprop, turbojet or internal combustion one, emits a lot of pollutants in the air, which does not make people very happy," Korotkov told reporters.
A lot of work has been done on that, including that related to electricity, he said.
"We are considering other sources of energy that rotate mechanisms. Today, such energy sources have been tested in drones, which operated rather successfully in the south and could maintain movement in the air for a long time," Korotkov said.
It is also necessary to resolve the issue of power supply to equipment installed onboard planes, which "have become very power-intensive," he said.
"We can already use new power systems on passenger planes," Korotkov said.
