Elixir Aircraft, a company based in La Rochelle with 50 employees, was created in 2015 to meet the challenges of the French light aviation sector. The objective of the French SME: to make safer, more economical & more versatile aircraft. Complexity is the current reason why older generation aircraft suffer from failures (technical or human) & are expensive to operate (fuel consumption & maintenance). Elixir Aircraft employs a technology from the world of competitive sailing, the Oneshot Carbon, to simplify the structures. More simplicity means fewer failures, therefore more safety, but also fewer maintenance, & lower costs (estimates of 40€/h of fuel & maintenance)… At the end of 2021, Elixir Aircraft will open a new production site in order to internalize the entire production of carbon parts.
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