NASA Shapes Course Towards Hybrid Next-Gen X-Plane

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LOS ANGELES and WASHINGTON—Amid a closer focus on sustainability and low emissions propulsion, NASA is formulating a new, “multi-tech” strategy to pave the way towards a possible next-generation, subsonic, electrified X-plane incorporating technology from a nearer-term flight demonstrator program...
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