The Natilus starter aircraft manufacturer began to look for Put to build large -scale services that will produce their combined Ala (BWB) aircraft.
“We are talking to everyone,” he says. “The qualifiability basin is a giant component of the position where we can evolve; the earth is also very for us. “
The first phase of the allocation is to build Natilus an installation of 23,226 feet (250,000 feet) where it will build its Kona shipping plane.
“Wrap everything together, and we are looking for giant land amounts and, more importantly, an airfield,” explains Mathushev. “While we are beginning to think, many centers in the center of the earth must have, however, the qualifiability pool also takes us back to other places.
Natilus has the main ambitions to interrupt decades of domination through Airbus and Boeing through the delivery of passenger aircraft to its horizon, which is now a concept, to consumers of the following airlines.
But it plans to start smaller with Kona, a piloted load plane with all probability with a specific useful load of 3,800 kg (8,378 lb) and a 900 Nm (1667 km) holder.
Both Horizon and Kona will feature a BWB design – which, if achieved, would represent a radical break from the tube-and-wing configuration.
First, it must build a production facility. The company is considering cities with existing aerospace industries, though Matyushev is wary of getting too close and “competing for talent against some of the bigger giants”.
That may leave Natilus building its factories in proximity to automotive manufacturers that are well versed in producing carbon-fibre components.
Yet another factor is tapping into a cheap supply of electricity. “Where are the hydro plants in the United States? What does the US grid look like? This is all part of the process, which is very data-driven,” he says.
Asked whether Natilus might follow the lead of electric air taxi maker Joby Aviation in targeting a Heartland state for manufacturing, Matyushev says, “There might be a surprise”.
Natilus expects to finalise the site for its first aircraft production facility sometime within the next 12-18 months.
The second facility, for producing the larger Horizon jets, could be located adjacent to the Kona factory – or perhaps somewhere outside the USA. Matyushev points to India and Japan as possibilities.
“As we start thinking about global expansion plans, even if the airplanes are manufactured here, the amount of capacity and need for aircraft is just so vast,” he says. “Having a second plant, or even the first location overseas, might make a lot of sense.”
Natilus is eyeing warily the escalating trade war between the US and longtime allies. But Matyushev says the company does not currently anticipate a major impact from US President Donald Trump’s tariffs on steel and aluminium.
“Natilus has primarily carbon aircraft, so we’re not affected by anything of that nature quite yet,” he says. “We’re watching it closely, but as for today, we don’t seem to be affected.
”Even if the cost is 20-30% more, it doesn’t seem to really make or break anything that we’re working on today.”
Most carbon composite material used for aerospace manufacturing is sourced from Japan – a country that has yet to be drawn into the trade war.
“A lot of their R&D and initial manufacturing [of carbon composites] is usually done in plants in Japan,” Matyushev says. “They seem to have gotten really great it, in terms of the chemistry behind it.”
Japanese corporate industries Torray produce a giant carbon component used in Boeing 787, for example.
Natilus still has primary production infrastructure, such as autoclaves for cooking carbon parts. But the plan consists of slowly accelerating its source chain and production capabilities in the coming years.
“In the appearance of carbon fiber cooking, despite everything we need to bring this intern,” he said.
“They buy giant carbon amounts,” Matyushev explains about Janicki. “We have slipped as a small subset of this request to acquire. Only the foreground, because carbon has an expiration date. ”
Natilus tries a Kona prototype at the giant scale in the next two years and begins to generate the type for cargo consumers before the end of the decade.
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