50 Strangest Aircraft Ever Made

X-57 Maxwell

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The X-57 Maxwell might look mundane, but this interesting aircraft is one of NASA’s premier technology demonstrators. As the flagship for the Scalable Convergent Electric Propulsion Technology Operations Research (SCEPTOR) project, the Maxwell will test some of the most farfetched aircraft designs out there. The X-57 is an all-electric aircraft, with fourteen different EM motors driving propellers mounted on the wing leading edges.