Still haven't worked out what Rolls are contributing to it. It's a YASA/Evolito (now owned by Mercedes) motor, off-the-shelf airframe modified by a company in Gloucestershire, and from memory someone else is doing the battery pack.
Re: Spirit of Innovation exceeded 387mph
Posted: Mon Nov 22, 2021 9:00 am
by Stinsy
Paul_F wrote: ↑Mon Nov 22, 2021 8:20 am
Still haven't worked out what Rolls are contributing to it. It's a YASA/Evolito (now owned by Mercedes) motor, off-the-shelf airframe modified by a company in Gloucestershire, and from memory someone else is doing the battery pack.
Someone had to write the press release!
It'll be a distraction exercise to brand the company/industry that make hugely-polluting jet engines as "green".