The Natilus starter aircraft manufacturer began to look for Put to build large -scale services that will produce their combined Ala (BWB) aircraft.
The founder and executive director of Founder, Aleksey Matyushev, told Flightglobal on March 21 that the company founded in San Diego intentionally sought in the United States to build its first factory, in components of the disturbances of the source chain related to US prices lists in critical materials.
But it is of the only attention of the corporate in the variety of a site.
“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 assignment is to build Natilus, a 23,226-foot (250,000-foot) facility where it will build its Kona delivery aircraft.
But the long -term vision is to climb the production significantly with a moment of installation of 232,258 m² to produce its planned advertising plane of two hundred passengers, Horizon.
“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.
“Having more localized ecosystems and the qualifiability basin, I think, is probably the maximum for us. “
Natilus has the main ambitions to interrupt decades of domination through Airbus and Boeing through the delivery of its passenger aircraft horizon, which is now still 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.
Horizon and Kona will provide a BWB design, which, if obtained, would constitute a radical rupture of the tube and ignition configuration.
First, you will have to build a production installation. The company is contemplating cities with the existing aerospace industries, Matyushev is being cautious and “competition for talents opposed to some of the greatest giants. “
This can leave Natilus to build their factories near car brands that know well the production of automobonal fiber parts.
Another thing is to use a reasonable electric power supply. “Where are hydroelectric plants in the United States?” What does the American network look at? All this is a component of the process, which is very aimed at the data, ”he says.
When asked if Natilus can adhere to the example of the Jothrough Aviation electric air taxi through a manufacturing center, Matyushev says: “There may be a surprise. “
Natilus plans to finish the first aircraft production installation in the next 12 to 18 months.
The installation of the moment, for the production of the largest horizon aircraft, can be located next to the Kona factory, or perhaps somewhere outside the doors of the United States. Matyushev underlines India and Japan as possibilities.
“While we begin to think about global expansion plans, even if the airplanes are made here, the amount of capacity and the need for airplanes is very large,” he said. “Having a plant at the moment, or even the first location abroad, can have a lot of meaning. “
Natilus observes the war of the developing industry between the United States and the allies for a long time. But Matyushev states that the company does not recently supply a primary one has an effect on the costs of US President Donald Trump in metal and aluminum.
“Natilus basically has carbon airplanes, so we are not yet affected through anything of this nature,” he said. “We look at him closely, but for today, we don’t seem affected.
“Even if the position is 20 to 30% more, it does not seem to do or break everything we are executing today. “
Most carbon compound fabrics used for aerospace production come from Japan, a country that has still been trained in the industry war.
“A giant component of its R&D and its initial production [carbon compounds] are sometimes carried out in plants in Japan,” explains Mathushev. “They seem to have become great, in terms of chemistry behind. “
Japanese corporate industries Torray produce a giant carbon component used in Boeing 787, for example.
Matsushev states that the complex chain of multinational sources of the aerospace industry represents a challenge, especially in the existing uncertainty environment, and that it would be advantageous to build airplanes close to suppliers.
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.
“On the side of the carbon fiber to bake, in the end we need to bring that inner,” he says.
Natilus has already acquired a giant amount of carbon fiber devices from the American spouse Janicki Industries. This will be used to make the main aerostructures for your first Kona plane and recently stored in coolers.
“They buy amounts of carbon,” explains Mathushev about Janicki. “We have placed ourselves as a small subset of this order form. Only the foreground, because the 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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