In 2017, an MIT class project explored a new kind of aircraft; it has now grown into an $850 million Ohio factory plan for an 8-motor hybrid plane that can take off from an area about the length of a soccer field
Electra takes a different approach to hybrid aviation. Instead of a traditional engine operating the propellers, the aircraft has a gas-powered generator in the nose. (Image: MIT News) A class project at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in 2017 studied a new type of aircraft; now, it has ballooned into a $850 million Ohio…
