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NASA’s X-57: Learn How Electric is the Shape of Things to Come

In this What's New in Aerospace program, NASA’s Nicholas Borer talks about the X-57 “Maxwell,” an all-electric experimental aircraft. Today, electrically-powered aircraft are starting to take flight, ...
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NASA's X-59 Promises to Fix Supersonic Flight's Biggest Problem

NASA's X-59 aircraft uses radical design to reduce sonic booms to 75-decibel thumps, potentially ending the 50-year ban on ...
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Emerging Technologies

Engineers working on NASA’s X-57 Maxwell are closing in on the all-electric experimental airplane’s first flight test, expected as early as September 20. Stratolaunch, operator of the world’s largest ...
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NASA's X-59 moves under its own power

July 22 (UPI) --NASA's quest for a quieter supersonic jet passed an early test after its X-59 aircraft was able to taxi at low speed at a manufacturing plant in California. The space agency on Tuesday ...