CubCrafters, the Yakima, Washington-based manufacturer of kit airplanes patterned after Piper’s iconic PA-18 Super Cub, has announced it’s testing a proprietary Electric Lift Augmenting Slats [ELAS] architecture by which the lift of its airplanes’ wings stands to be dramatically increased.
Over summers past, smoke born of wildfires up Canada way has passed largely unnoticed over the U.S.—primarily by virtue of its high altitude. Not so in 2023 ...
On 08 June 2023, MIT’s campus news outlet reported a group of MIT engineers has set out to design and build a one-megawatt electric motor conducive to the propulsive needs of larger aircraft. To date, the band of boffins has tested the inchoate motor’s major components and demonstrated by dint of detailed computations that the contraption, once completed, will output one megawatt of power at a weight and size consistent with those of extant small aero-engines.
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