Meet Maxwell, NASA's Experimental Plane That's All Electric - STEM in 30

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Channel: Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum · 2017 · Education

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The X-57 “Maxwell” is an all-electric experimental aircraft. The X-57 flight demonstrator is designed to showcase one way electric power can shape new airplanes through a technology called Distributed Electric Propulsion (DEP). 

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