The new battery in the EcoPulse* demonstrator is Airbus’ latest “technology brick” to enable our future aircraft to further support decarbonisation / In June last year Airbus successfully performed the EcoPulse* wind tunnel testing at its facility in Filton, UK. These tests evaluated the performance characteristics of the propeller and the cooling process of the six ‘distributed’ electric propulsion units. In 2022, the assembly of the demonstrator – a light aircraft platform supplied by Daher* – is well underway, paving the way for its first test flight later this year. (....)