Swanson Aviation Consultancy was thrilled to find out that Graham Warwick of Aviation week posted an article on Distributed Aviation: A new economic model for electric aviation and NASA's Regional Air Mobility paper.

"A report produced by Swanson Aviation Consultancy and released by UK aerospace trade association ADS Group calls the concept distributed aviation. New propulsion systems will lead to the creation of electric low-cost carriers—eLCCs—flying subregional routes that are not economically viable for hydrocarbon-powered aircraft, proposes Darrell Swanson, managing director and the report’s author...."

"Distributed aviation will be built on the availability of these electric conventional-, short- and vertical-takeoff-and-landing (eCTOL, eSTOL and eVTOL) aircraft, which have the potential to significantly change subregional travel—30-300 km (20-200 mi.) for eVTOL and 100-1,000 km for eCTOL and eSTOL—Swanson says. These aircraft will be operated by eLCCs on routes with less demand, enabled by the lower capital, operating and maintenance costs of electric propulsion."

The Aviation Week paper is available through this link.

Reports Envision Regional Air Networks Enabled By Electric Aircraft | Aviation Week Network

You can download a copy of the Distributed Aviation paper from the following link.

Distributed Aviation - a new economic model for electric aviation - ADS Group

The NASA Regional Air Mobility paper can be downloaded here.

Regional Air Mobility | SACD (nasa.gov)

If you are interested in hearing my review of the NASA Regional Air Mobility paper you can follow this link to Darrell's LinkedIn video.

https://www.linkedin.com/posts/darrellswanson_distributedaviation-advancedairmobility-regionalairmobility-ugcPost-6793957788813971456-glWw