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NASA's 10-Engine Aircraft Takes Off Like a Helicopter, Flies Like a Plane

NASA’s new battery-powered, 10-engine aircraft takes off, hovers, and lands like a helicopter — yet flies efficiently like a plane. It shifts between vertical and forward flight while up in the air. Called Greased Lightning or GL-10, a prototype with a 3-meter (10-foot) wingspan just completed its…