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Reinventing the wing: With electric propulsion and lots of propellers, planes can use smaller wings to fly efficiently

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I remember distinctly the cool december day in 2013 at my company's headquarters in the Santa Cruz mountains when we met with researchers from NASA to plan tests for a… Click to show full abstract

I remember distinctly the cool december day in 2013 at my company's headquarters in the Santa Cruz mountains when we met with researchers from NASA to plan tests for a novel propeller configuration for electric aircraft. Somehow, our Joby Aviation team, the NASA researchers, and colleagues from another small California business brainstormed our way into a much more ambitious program than any of us had expected when the meeting began.

Keywords: reinventing wing; propulsion lots; electric propulsion; propellers planes; wing electric; lots propellers

Journal Title: IEEE Spectrum
Year Published: 2018

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