Over a few weeks in the closing months of 2023, the shape of aircraft propulsion changed significantly with flights by three quite different aircraft: Elroy Air’s Chaparral, Electra.aero’s Goldfinch ...

A European research project to evaluate distributed electric propulsion using a subscale flight demonstrator is back up and running, the aircraft having been rebuilt after being destroyed on the ...

Dutch researchers have completed the first flight of a new scaled demonstrator designed to evaluate the potential for future passenger aircraft using a distributed electrical propulsion (DEP) ...

Airbus' EcoPulse hybrid-electric distributed propulsion demonstrator aircraft has completed its maiden flight using its complete powertrain of ePropellers, high-density batteries, and a turbogenerator ...

On a chilly day in mid-December, key stakeholders gathered together at a Daher hangar in Tarbes, in southwest France, to bid adieu to the EcoPulse demonstrator during a livestream wrap-up. A ...

EcoPulse, the hybrid-electric distributed propulsion aircraft demonstrator jointly developed by Daher, Safran and Airbus to support aviation’s decarbonization roadmap, has successfully performed its ...