FlightGlobal reports that the European Union Aviation Safety Agency has “drawn up an initial set of certification requirements for electric or hybrid propulsion systems for future aircraft types.” The special condition “has been shaped from an initial proposal in January last year, following extensive comments from multiple aerospace companies including Airbus, The Boeing Company, Embraer, Rolls-Royce, Safran and other organisations specialising in electric propulsion.” EASA said, “It is considered challenging at this stage to provide a generic set of requirements for [such propulsion systems] that could encompass all possibilities.” For “large aircraft, covered by CS-25 certification standards, the special condition must be complemented with appropriate emissions requirements which are ‘yet to be defined’ for electric propulsion, says EASA.” The agency “also points out that any design including use of hydrogen – whether to feed fuel cells or combustion engines – is also outside of the scope.”
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EASA Chief: 737 MAX “Likely” to Receive Approval to Fly “In January”
Reuters reported that the European Union Aviation Safety Agency “is set to lift its flight ban on the Boeing 737 MAX passenger jetliner in January after U.S. regulators last week ended a 20-month grounding triggered by two fatal crashes.” On Saturday, EASA Executive Director Patrick Ky said, “We wanted to carry out a totally independent analysis of the safety of this aircraft, so we performed our own checks and flight tests. All these studies tell us that the 737 MAX can return to service. We have started to put in place all the measures.” Ky continued, “It is likely that in our case we will adopt the decisions, allowing it to return to service, some time in January.” EASA will likely publish a draft “directive proposing to end the grounding in Europe…next week, followed by a 30-day comment period.”
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