Motorsport inspired technology to aid future combat aircraft development

Posted on 16 Jul 2020 by Jonny Williamson

BAE Systems and Williams Advanced Engineering (WAE) have joined forces to explore how battery management and cooling technologies from the motorsport industry could be exploited to deliver efficiency and performance gains in the design of future combat aircraft.

An Oxfordshire-based specialist team from WAE is working closely with BAE Systems engineers in Lancashire to inform and guide thinking about how future aircraft could fly faster and more efficiently than anything before. The project is part of a wider research effort to develop technologies that could be used to develop the most advanced combat…

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