The electrification bug is rapidly engulfing pretty much all sides of the world's transportation industry. After spreading like wildfire in automobiles, electrification is now rapidly taking hold in ...

Nov. 6 (UPI) --NASA engineers fired the engines on the X-59 research aircraft in advance of planned test flights to determine if the aircraft can reduce sonic booms and make supersonic flight over ...

X-59’s engine started for testing for the first time. NASA’s Quesst (“Quiet SuperSonic Technology”) mission recently achieved a key milestone as it began testing the engine that will power the X-59, ...

NASA's revolutionary X-59 jet is steadily progressing towards its first flight test. Starting on Oct. 30, engineers with NASA's X-59 Quesst program (Quiet SuperSonic Technology) have been conducting ...

It's been three years since American space agency NASA started a project called Electric Powertrain Flight Demonstration (EPFD), and we're finally beginning to get a sense of what this program is all ...

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This former Air Tindi Dash 7 is undergoing baseline flight tests ahead of modification to hybrid-electric configuration. Credit: Air Tindi With two electric engines in development and flight ...

GE Aerospace is developing a hybrid electric demonstrator engine with NASA that will embed electric motor/generators in a high-bypass commercial turbofan to supplement power during different phases of ...

NASA and electric propulsion developer Magnix are moving forward with plans to advance cleaner regional aviation, revealing on 22 August a De Havilland Canada Dash 7 turboprop that will receive hybrid ...

GE Aerospace reported it is working with NASA to test a hybrid electric demonstrator engine with NASA that will embed electric motor/generators in a high-bypass commercial turbofan, to supplement ...