Fire Destroys Clean Sky’s Electric Aircraft Scaled Demonstrator

Graham Warwick May 22, 2023
Clean Sky 2’s DEP-SFD

Clean Sky 2’s DEP-SFD was a 1:8.5-scale A320 fitted with distributed electric propulsion.

Credit: Royal NLR
A subscale aircraft built under Europe’s Clean Sky 2 research program to flight-test distributed electric propulsion has been destroyed by fire during ground tests at the Netherlands aerospace research center Royal NLR in Amsterdam. The incident occurred on May 11. Emergency services extinguished...
Graham Warwick

Graham leads Aviation Week's coverage of technology, focusing on engineering and technology across the aerospace industry, with a special focus on identifying technologies of strategic importance to aviation, aerospace and defense.

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