Europe Launches Hybrid-Electric Regional Aircraft Technology Development

Leonardo
Leonardo is studying a regional aircraft with distributed hybrid electric propulsion under European-funded research programs.
Credit: Leonardo
European’s Clean Aviation research program has launched a slew of projects aimed at enabling a low-emission hybrid-electric airliner to enter service and issued a call for proposals for additional research to complete the suite of technologies being matured. Work began in January on 20 projects that...
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