ARPA-E Eyes Flying Testbed For Advanced Electric Engines

Honeywell

Honeywell and the University of Maryland are among teams developing advanced electric engines for ARPA-E.

Credit: Honeywell
With several of its high-performance electric engine projects heading into ground demonstrations, the advanced research arm of the U.S. Energy Department (DOE) is studying whether it can launch a program to modify a regional jet into a flying testbed for the propulsion systems. The Advanced Research...
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