http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/d-brief/?p=39409
NASA’s X-57 Maxwell is the agency’s first all-electric airplane. It’s also the first X-plane for NASA in two decades. (Credit: NASA)
NASA is getting ready to test their first all-electric
plane, the X-57 Maxwell, at the Armstrong Flight Research Center in Edwards,
California.
This latest version of the aircraft, called Modification II
or Mod II, just arrived at Edwards from San Luis Obispo, California, where the
plane was being developed by Empirical Systems Aerospace.
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October 9, 2019 at 06:09PM