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NASA have decided to not fly the X57 technology demonstrator. The reason given was described as “As we got into the detailed analysis and airworthiness assessment of the motors themselves, we found that there were some potential failure modes with the motors mechanically, under flight loads, that we hadn’t seen on the ground,”

According to this article

The motors have been developed by Joby Aviation.

If you read the whole article on the X57 they have had problems with the power electronics as well. It is hard to say what is really going on but it is hard to spin this as good news for NASA or Joby.

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Interesting News

One of my projects sent me this news article

NASA have decided to not fly the X57 technology demonstrator. The reason given was described as “As we got into the detailed analysis and airworthiness assessment of the motors themselves, we found that there were some potential failure modes with the motors mechanically, under flight loads, that we hadn’t seen on the ground,”

According to this article

The motors have been developed by Joby Aviation.

If you read the whole article on the X57 they have had problems with the power electronics as well. It is hard to say what is really going on but it is hard to spin this as good news for NASA or Joby.

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