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NASA Investigates Unexpected Results In eVTOL Crash Test

Graham Warwick January 06, 2023

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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Graham leads Aviation Week's coverage of technology, focusing on engineering and technology across the aerospace industry, with a special focus on identifying technologies of strategic importance to aviation, aerospace and defense.

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