Hybrid-Electric Airliners

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NASA, GE Aerospace Advancing Hybrid-Electric Airliners with HyTEC

Hybrid-electric cars have been a staple of the road for many years now. Soon that same idea of a part-electric-, part-gas-powered engine may find its way into the skies propelling a future jet airliner. NASA is working in tandem with industry partner GE Aerospace on designing and building just such an engine, one that burns much less fuel by including…