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Rolls-Royce, led by Warren East, has secret patent for electric jets
Rolls-Royce has quietly filed a patent for a new breed of electric engine that could shape the future of air travel. The FTSE 100 engineer’s research team in Indianapolis has devised a “turboelectric distributed propulsion system” that would power a “blended wing body aircraft”. The patent, filed in October, is…
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