Cormorant Seaplanes has entered the competition to reinvent amphibious aircraft for the 21st century. Its planned seven-passenger model will feature hybrid-electric propulsion, but more unusually may be largely built from wood, which the Dutch company describes as “nature’s original, renewable, composite material.”
In March, Cormorant started refining the preliminary design with the University of Glasgow and German aerospace engineering company Leichtwerk, which is an EASA-approved Part 21J design organization. Working through the Sustainable Aviation Test Environment project, based in Scotland’s Orkney Islands, Cormorant is also sharing in a £1.7 million ($2.1 million) funding pot from the UK Research and Innovation organization along with eVTOL aircraft developer ARC Aero Systems and airship manufacturer Hybrid Air Vehicles. Phase 2 of this work, which started in July 2022, is based at the test center at Kirkwall Airport.
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