NASA and Empirical Systems Aerospace, a San Luis Obispo, California-based small business, have unveiled an experimental all-electric aircraft, called X-57 Maxwell, and plan to conduct a maiden test flight of the plane
MoreNASA has completed the high-voltage testing of its all-electric X-57 Maxwell aircraft at the agency's Armstrong Flight Research Center in California. The milestone saw the first time the X-57's propellers spun under
MoreNASA has tested the propeller technology designed to boost the X-57 Maxwell, the space agency's first X-plane completely powered by electricity. NASA said Monday that it ran the tests through a low-speed
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