ARPA-E Flies Advanced Electric Motor Drive

Ampaire

Ampaire’s ARPA-E Bird flying testbed will test electrification technologies in flight.

Credit: Ampaire
Ampaire has begun flight-testing propulsion electrification technologies on its hybrid-electric testbed aircraft under contract to the U.S. Energy Department’s Advanced Research Projects Agency – Energy (ARPA-E). The first technology to be flight-tested on the modified Cessna 337 Skymaster, dubbed...
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