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Three aerospace teams working under NASA contracts have independently concluded that reaching NASA’s ambitious efficiency and environmental targets for new commercial airlines in 2050 requires moving away from tube-and-wing aircraft configuration that has defined commercial flight for six decades.
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Students Tasked with Studying One of Electric Aviation’s Biggest Challenges
Flying Magazine reports, “Over the next three years, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University will send cohorts of students to Brazil to study one of the most pressing challenges facing electric aircraft: thermal management. The university on Friday announced a collaboration with Brazil’s Instituto Tecnológico de Aeronáutica (ITA) that will send students on 8- to 10-week trips in pursuit of strategies to keep electric aircraft batteries cool.”
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