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The Yak-40LL flying lab uses a superconducting electric motor during a first demo flight at the recent MAKS 2021 air show.

Credit: CIAM

MOSCOW—A Yak-40LL testbed modified with a nose-mounted propeller driven by a 500 kW (680 hp) low-loss superconducting electric motor was demonstrated in flight for the first time at Russia’s MAKS 2021 airshow which took place at Zhukovsky, Moscow, in late July. “The flight was a routine, the…

 

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