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Progress on X-57 Cruise Motors and Wing

ESAero engineers perform fit checks on the X-57 future wing.
Engineers at Empirical Systems Aerospace, or ESAero, perform fit checks on the future wing to be used on the final configurations of NASA’s all-electric X-57 Maxwell, at their facility in San Luis Obispo, California.

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Engineers at Empirical Systems Aerospace, or ESAero, perform fit checks on the future wing to be used on the final configurations of NASA’s all-electric X-57 Maxwell, at their facility in San Luis Obispo, California. Using a “fit check” fuselage, seen here, the team is able to determine the safest and most efficient method of integrating the wing to be used in Mods III and IV of X-57, while the primary fuselage prepares for ground, taxi, and flight tests at NASA’s Armstrong Flight Research Center in Edwards, California.

Photo Credit / Empirical Systems Aerospace