On Friday NASA announced
that the space agency is ready to test a new and experimental all-electric plane, the X-57, or “Maxwell.” It will sport 14 electrically-powered propellers integrated into a specially-designed new kind of wing. According to NASA’s administrator, Charles Bolden, the aircraft also marks “the return of piloted X-planes to NASA’s research capabilities.”
“[The] general aviation-sized X-57 will take the first step in opening a new era of aviation,” Bolden said in the release published on the agency’s website.

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