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New electric plane
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The plane took off from the Boscombe Down territory of the British Ministry of Defense in the Amesbury area and remained in the air for 15 minutes.
The high-speed all-electric single-rotor aircraft Spirit of Innovation from Rolls-Royce made its maiden flight.
The plane took off from the Boscombe Down territory of the British Ministry of Defense in the Amesbury area and remained in the air for 15 minutes.
The first flight could be completed a year later than originally planned. The program will now enter a more intense flight test phase to collect data on electrical power and propulsion characteristics of the aircraft and conclude with an attempt to accelerate to 480 km / h.
Spirit of Innovation, part of the Accelerated Electrification of Flight (ACEL) program, is being developed by Rolls-Royce to not only set a new airspeed record for electric motors, but also to drive the development of eVTOL air taxis.
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