NASA is Building its First Electric Airplane

NASA’s X-57 Maxwell is the agency’s first all-electric airplane. It's also the first crewed X-plane for NASA in two decades. (Credit: NASA)NASA is getting ready to test its first all-electric plane, the X-57 Maxwell, at the Armstrong Flight Research Center at California's Edwards Air Force Base.This latest version of the aircraft, called Modification II or Mod II, just arrived at Edwards from San Luis Obispo, California, where the plane was being developed by Empirical Systems Aerosp