Boeing Tests Nosewheel Taxiing Motor

Boeing Phantom Works is encouraged by initial tests of an electric motor that can power a nosewheel for gate pushbacks and taxiing as a more efficient and less polluting way to move aircraft around airports. In tests this June, an Air Canada 767-200 was equiped with a Chorus Motors Meshcon electric...

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