WheelTug Update

by | Aug 17, 2020 | Aerospace | 0 comments

WheelTug has completed a test in Memphis of its nosewheel-based e-taxi system.  The tests demonstrated the system achieved the full performance spectrum and exceeded its performance targets and also demonstrated it has greatly enhanced aircraft maneuverability needed...

e-Taxi update

by | Feb 7, 2018 | etaxi, WheelTug | 0 comments

It has been a while since we last heard about this part of the industry.  Low fuel costs pushed it down people’s consciousness.  Now that fuel prices are rising again, its coming back.   Since the last fuel price spike, the leading contender, WheelTug modified...

A Flight Ops Challenge – And the case for E-Taxi documented

by | Mar 31, 2016 | Airbus, Airlines, Airports, American Airlines, Austrian, Boeing, British Airways, Delta Air Lines, Environment, etaxi, Lufthansa, SN Brussels, Swiss Air, United Airlines | 6 comments

E-taxi pioneers Wheeltug just released research (ground operations summary 31 Mar 2016) it undertook monitoring airport operations.  The case for adding e-taxi capabilities to aircraft has tended to focus on saving fuel burn.  But fuel burn is no longer such an...