Europe’s Distributed Electric Propulsion Testbed Flies

Clean Sky 2 Scaled Flight Demonstrator

The remotely piloted Subscale Flight Demonstrator-Distributed Electric Propulsion prepares for takeoff.

Credit: Royal NLR
A subscale flight demonstrator of a distributed electric propulsion system for large passenger aircraft has made its remotely piloted first flight in Italy under Europe’s Clean Sky 2 public-private research program. The aircraft originally was built under Clean Sky 2’s Scaled Flight Demonstrator...
Graham Warwick

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