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NASA Wants Its All-Electric Plane to Transform How We Fly

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The X-57, the latest in the agency’s experimental aircraft program, may be one of the most important technologies tested this year.

Kurt Loft
Kurt Loft
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NASA Langley/Advanced Concepts Lab, AMA, Inc
Kurt Loft

Kurt Loft

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