The X-57’s motors were run using onboard battery power for the first time late last year.
Credit: NASA
NASA’s long-running X-57 Maxwell program, the agency’s first all-electric experimental aircraft, is entering the final validation and verification phase to clear the way for first flight this year at the Armstrong Flight Research Center in California. Although delayed several times by airworthiness...
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