Scaled Begins Modifying NASA’s Electric X-57

Credit: NASA
Initial electrification of NASA’s X-57 Maxwell electric propulsion demonstrator is under way at Scaled Composites. The rapid-prototyping specialist has begun modifying the Tecnam P2006T piston twin while the battery and cruise motors are in final design, says Sean Clarke, X-57 principal investigator...

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