Electric Aviation - NASA interview on Maxwell X57 - Part 1: New Aerodynamic Concepts

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Parts in the NASA interview series:

In this first out of 4 videos on our interview with NASA, we discuss the basic layout of this novel electric aircraft.

The X-57 is the latest in the famous series of X-planes developed by NASA - their experimental aircraft like the X15.

Sean Clarke and Nick Borer give their take on the design of this aircraft. We discuss the benefits if distributed electric propulsion, especially in terms of new aerodynamic concepts that are being made possible.

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The AirShaper videos cover the basics of aerodynamics (aerodynamic drag, drag & lift coefficients, boundary layer theory, flow separation, reynolds number...), simulation aspects (computational fluid dynamics, CFD meshing, ...) and aerodynamic testing (wind tunnel testing, flow visualization, ...).

We then use those basics to explain the aerodynamics of (race) cars (aerodynamic efficiency of electric vehicles, aerodynamic drag, downforce, aero maps, formula one aerodynamics, ...), drones and airplanes (propellers, airfoils, electric aviation, eVTOLS, ...), motorcycles (wind buffeting, motogp aerodynamics, ...) and more!

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Thumbs up for approaching electric aircraft topic! We in RC are very happy with it for more than two decades now ... What NASA is doing with X-57 is very relevant for commercial aviation, personally I'm more interested in STOL/VTOL capabilities electric propulsion brings and variety of new designs that it makes possible. It's a whole cambrian explosion out there ...

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Do the ground effect of the new 2022 F1 cars, and different configurations to achieve good ground force!

ptviwatcher
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Do you actually think that the human race has enough time to perfect electric planes and transportation in general we our dumbing down making our future doubtful at best I pray wrong but I don't think so

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