MIT’s Surge I is a remote-control subscale model of an electric ducted fan ultra-STOL aircraft.
Credit: MIT
In 2019, a student team at Massachusetts Institute of Technology flew a subscale model of an aircraft using blown lift provided by distributed electric propulsion to enable supershort takeoffs and landings. That remotely piloted model led to startup Electra.aero’s EL2 piloted technology demonstrator...
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