NASA Investigates Unexpected Results In eVTOL Crash Test

The overhead structure failed in NASA’s November full-scale eVTOL crash test.

Credit: NASA
NASA researchers are investigating why a full-scale crash test of an electric vertical takeoff and landing (eVTOL) concept vehicle resulted in the dramatic and unexpected collapse of the composite fuselage structure. Conducted in November at the Landing and Impact Research facility at NASA’s Langley...
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