Siemens AG, Diamond Aircraft and EADS are set to present the
world's first aircraft with a serial hybrid electric drive system at the Paris
Air Show Le Bourget 2011. The two-seater motor glider successfully completed
its maiden flight on June 8 at the Wiener Neustadt airfield in Vienna, Austria.
The aircraft was built by the three partners to test the hybrid electric drive
concept. In the future, the technology, which is intended for later use also in
large-scale aircraft, will cut fuel consumption and emissions by 25 percent,
compared to today's most efficient aircraft drives.