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Massachusetts Institute of Technology - MIT
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2026
13 August

ReleaseProtolabs supports MIT Industrial Performance Center research fellows to accelerate U.S. medical and aerospace manufacturing innovation

10 June The concept combines a lifting fuselage with electrically powered boundary layer ingesting tail fans.

Electra advances hybrid-electric concept architecture for 2050

NASA-backed research has explored how electrification could deliver additional efficiency gains while remaining compatible with existing airline operations.

20 May

ReleaseDepartment of the Air Force and Istari Digital unveil Industry Øne: the ARPANET for engineering

2025
21 May Electric motors blow air over the EL9’s wing and large flaps, enabling unprecedented ultra short takeoff and landing capabilities. Recent MIT wind tunnel tests with a 20% scale model of the wing validated lift coefficients 7x greater than traditional aircraft.

Wind-tunnel tests confirm Electra's lift potential

Using a 20 per cent scale model of the EL9 wing, recent tests have demonstrated lift coefficients greater than 20 , which is around seven times greater than the range typical of unblown wings.

5 February

ReleaseGE Aerospace Research joins the MIT Industrial Liaison Program

2024
12 November

ReleaseNASA selects Electra as awardee in AACES 2050 program

2022
29 September We have lift-off.

Climate observation project sees Electra's Dawn One fly

This solar-battery aircraft is part of Electra's ongoing development of reduced and zero-carbon aircraft propulsion technologies, which also include turbine-electric and hydrogen fuel-cell based hybrid systems.

17 March Electra’s hybrid eSTOL aircraft with precision landing capabilities will support runway-independent operations where an airfield may no longer be accessible.

Electra/MIT team gains USAF funding for flight controls

Electra's eSTOL aircraft can operate from spaces as small as 300 x 100 feet using its patent-pending distributed electric propulsion and blown lift technology. Funding will help develop its flight control system.

2021
24 February

ReleaseData transfer system connects silicon chips with a hair's-width cable

2020
13 January

ReleaseA new approach to making airplane parts, minus the massive infrastructure

2019
31 March

ReleaseMIT and NASA engineers demonstrate a new kind of airplane wing

2017
13 November

ReleaseBoeing pledge to power construction of MIT's new Wright Brothers wind tunnel

11 September

ReleaseStick, peel, or bounce: Controlling a freezing droplet's fate

19 January

ReleaseUTC Aerospace Systems is changing the industry with its lightest ice protection systems ever