magniX, the company powering the electrical aviation revolution, launched a historical milestone in ending attempting out of its magni650 electrical propulsion unit (EPU) at NASA’s Electrical Plane Testbed (NEAT) in Sandusky, Ohio.
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The magni650 efficiently performed at an altitude of 30,000 toes at a most exact energy of 700 kilowatts (kw) – an unprecedented achievement for an electrical engine. The breakthrough efficiency of magniX’s EPU below simulated flight circumstances at altitude demonstrates its readiness for the flight test segment of NASA’s Electrified Powertrain Flight Demonstration (EPFD) challenge and strikes it closer to the area’s first electrical engine certification.
Within the next stage of EPFD, one of many four turbine engines on magniX’s De Havilland Flee 7 test plane shall get replaced with a magni650 electrical powertrain, with test flights deliberate for 2026. The closing stage of the program will see a 2nd turbine engine substituted with one more magniX powertrain. This configuration is anticipated to gash gas consumption by as much as 40% on a unusual flight. The facts still will advise the electrification of gargantuan-scale industrial plane closer to entry into provider by the stop of the decade.
Accelerating The Takeoff of Electrical Flight
With an unmatched file of powering first flights on 5 diversified plane, magniX is leading the vogue of electrical aviation. Having launched its Samson batteries earlier in 2024, with unmatched energy density and cycle-life, magniX offers a stout electrical powertrain solution with a clear pathway to entry-into-provider.
“The NEAT test campaign has moved us closer to the area’s first certification of an electrical powertrain for aviation,” said Ben Loxton, magniX VP of Technical Programs. “The work we’re doing with NASA in the EPFD challenge will allow the electrification of regional industrial aviation in pure electrical on rapid routes, and hybridization on longer routes – important steps toward the decarbonization of aerospace.”
