Advances in computational and experimental tools along with new technologies in materials, structures, and aircraft controls, etc. are enabling a high degree of integration of the airframe and ...

The world’s first amphibious seaplane using distributed electric propulsion will be developed by a new partnership between Airflow.aero and Tailwind Air. Tailwind’s Letter of Interest (LOI) commitment ...

A European research project to evaluate distributed electric propulsion using a subscale flight demonstrator is back up and running, the aircraft having been rebuilt after being destroyed on the ...

On the runway to more fuel-efficient aircraft, one alternative propulsion scheme being explored is an array of electrically powered ducted fans. The fans are distributed across the wing span or ...

Airbus' EcoPulse hybrid-electric distributed propulsion demonstrator aircraft has completed its maiden flight using its complete powertrain of ePropellers, high-density batteries, and a turbogenerator ...

France’s EcoPulse distributed electric propulsion demonstrator—developed by Daher, Safran and Airbus—has conducted its first flight in hybrid-electric mode. The modified single-turboprop TBM 700 flew ...

Distributed electric fan propulsion is the focus of a $475,000 Defense Advanced Projects Agency (DARPA) study awarded to Boeing. The Advanced Distributed Electric Propulsion Technology (ADEPT) study ...

A Peterbilt truck at NASA’s Armstrong Flight Research Center may never get off the ground, but, carrying a 31-foot wing outfitted with 18 propellers, it is instrumental in advancing a ...

AUSTIN, Texas & TOULOUSE, France--(BUSINESS WIRE)--H3 Dynamics has successfully completed the world’s first fully integrated hydrogen-electric propulsion aircraft nacelle, the core enabling power ...

TOULOUSE, France--(BUSINESS WIRE)--The future of hydrogen aviation powered by H3 Dynamics’ distributed hydrogen propulsion nacelles has taken flight for the very first time in France. Following the ...