Electric Flight - Environment-friendly air transport of the future

Environment-friendly air transport of the future. DLR believes that electric flight is a key driver for reducing climate-damaging emissions as the volume of air traffic increases. It is therefore seeking political support for the early and long-term testing of hybrid-electric aircraft propulsion systems; these are a combination of a gas turbine and one or more electric motors.

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