Seattle’s AeroTec joins Pratt & Whitney’s hybrid-electric plane push

Seattle’s AeroTec joins Pratt & Whitney’s hybrid-electric plane push

Le BOURGET, France — Moses Lake, Washington, will be the test site for a new hybrid-electric plane as part of an experiment that aims to make aircraft cleaner and more fuel efficient. Read more...

Seattle's AeroTec joins Pratt & Whitney's hybrid-electric plane push

Le BOURGET, France — Moses Lake will be the test site for a new hybrid-electric plane as part of an experiment that aims to make aircraft cleaner and more fuel efficient.

AeroTEC joins project to test hybrid-electric aircraft

Seattle-based AeroTEC says it’s been selected by Pratt & Whitney Canada to lead the modification and flight test of an experimental hybrid-electric demonstrator aircraft at its Flight Test Center in Moses Lake, Wash. The RTX demonstrator is a De Havilland Canada Dash 8-100 aircraft that will be modified to use a thermal engine built by Pratt & Whitney Canada and a 1-megawatt electric motor developed by Collins Aerospace. Both Pratt & Whitney and…