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NASA Using Distributed Propulsion for Electric Airplane

Satya Sivani — Sat, 28 Mar 2015 12:22:51 +0000

An announcement made by NASA changes our perspective of Airplane wings and propulsion system. NASA announced its distributed propulsion design on which it was working since last year. The project, named Leading Edge Asynchronous Propeller Technology (LEAPTech) was taken up by NASA in cooperation with Joby Aviation and Empirical Systems Aerospace (ESAero). To build electric planes, […]

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NASA Green Flight Challenge Won by Taurus G4 Electric Plane

Mike Sandru — Sat, 08 Oct 2011 12:30:13 +0000

A Pennsylvania-based team called Pipistrel-USA has recently won the NASA CAFE Green Flight Challenge after taking the first place with their electric plane called the Taurus G4, that was able to fly 200 miles in less than two hours. The contest, sponsored by Google, was created in order to spur development of electric airplanes and […]

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