Europe’s Distributed-Propulsion Demo Gets Second Chance To Fly

The original D08 demonstrator performed taxi tests before being destroyed in a battery fire.

Credit: Royal NLR
A European research project to evaluate distributed electric propulsion using a subscale flight demonstrator is back up and running, the aircraft having been rebuilt after being destroyed on the ground in a battery fire. The aircraft was originally built under the EU Clean Sky 2 research program’s...
Graham Warwick

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