Safran Plans Hybrid Distributed Power System VTOL Demo

LONDON—Safran Helicopter Engines is working to achieve a demonstration flight of a hybrid distributed power system on a vertical-lift platform by 2020. The company says that while the urban air mobility market is driving the development of wholly electric air vehicles such as the CityAirbus program...

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