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The state of electric propulsion in aircraft

Summary by engineering.com
BETA Technologies A250 eVTOL prototype aircraft, N251UT flying (IMAGE: Brian Jenkins) Like electric cars, electric aircraft were there from the beginning. A brief history of electric propulsion in aircraft First developed during the early age of flight in the late nineteenth century, the earliest electric aircraft were airships: blimps or dirigibles that used electric motors to generate thrust. However, it wasn’t until 1973 that the first crewed…
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engineering.com broke the news in on Wednesday, July 2, 2025.
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