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1-Megawatt Aviation Motors Advance
Leading aviation firms are developing 1-Megawatt (1,300hp) full-scale electric aircraft motors, opening a new era in full-scale electric flight. At the June, 2023 Paris Air Show, Jeff Engler, founder and CEO of Wright Electric, told Aerosociety.com’s AEROSPACE that his company had successfully tested its aerospace electric motor-generator at 1MW (lead photo). “We’ve also signed a Space Act Agreement with NASA to conduct altitude testing of the unit in the NASA Electric Aircraft Testbed (NEAT) to...
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