NASA’s X-57 ‘Maxwell’ is the agency’s first all-electric experimental aircraft, or X-plane, and is NASA’s first crewed X-plane in two decades. Set to take flight later this year in the Mod II configuration, the X-57 Mod II aircraft will examine and validate the safety and functionality of the electric system. Lessons learned throughout the X-57 project are continually being shared with industry and academia to further the advancement of electrified aircraft. The X-57 project is hsaring the aircr