NASA's testing its far-out electric plane concept
 

NASA's set to test a wing concept it says "may herald (the) future" of electric planes, but it almost looks like a joke -- it has one-third the wing area of a normal aircraft and 18 electric motors. But the space agency is dead serious about the LEAP...

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