Rolls-Royce To Lead German Hybrid-Electric Propulsion Demonstrator

Credit: Rolls-Royce
Rolls-Royce will lead development of a hybrid-electric flight demonstrator with funding from the German state of Brandenburg. The distributed-propulsion testbed will be based on an aircraft, the i-5, designed by APUS, an aviation engineering company based in Strausberg, Germany. The three-year...
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