The X-57 program was hoping to salvage flight with a more modest Mod II configuration that used its electric cruise motors.
Credit: NASA
“The first guy through the wall always gets bloody,” the saying goes. NASA’s X-57 Maxwell program is a case in point. Focused on developing an experimental electric aircraft with 14 propellers distributed along its wing, the effort will conclude at the end of September after eight years of trying...
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