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[Truck motor]

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>> Following years of anticipation, NASA engineers
had their first look at what will become the

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first NASA x-plane in a decade, as the future
distributed electric propulsion-powered X-57

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Maxwell touched American soil for the first
time.

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>>  We have an airplane.

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>> We do need to talk a little bit about how we're
gonna put the electric motors in here, because

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we need to find a place to put the controllers...

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>> The P-2006T, which shipped from Tecnam's facilities
in Naples, Italy, arrived at Empirical Systems

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Aerospace in Oceano, California on July 19.

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[Applause]

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[Music]

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>> Here, the aircraft, which was shipped in two
separate parts, underwent thorough component

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inspection to verify modifications made during
the fabrication process, followed by weight

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and balance measurements.

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>> Nose is one hundred and thirty...

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>> Once ES Aero completes initial inspections,
the aircraft will be transported to Scaled

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Composites in Mojave, where it will undergo
the first phase of modification into a fully

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electric airplane.