NASA Budget Makes Deep Cuts Across Aeronautics Research Portfolio

MagniX’s NASA-funded hybrid-electric flight demonstrator

MagniX’s NASA-funded hybrid-electric flight demonstrator is a key part of the startup’s plans to certify its electric propulsion units.

Credit: David C. Bowman/NASA
Plans to fly two hybrid-electric propulsion demonstrators are among the victims of the Trump administration’s decision to cut funding for green aircraft technologies from NASA’s aeronautics research budget. Work on and funding for the Electrified Powertrain Flight Demonstrator (EPFD) projects at GE...
Graham Warwick

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