This you've got to like and as we've seen how individuals can turn pages, so too can a small number of students at M.I.T. who went on to build a company around 'blown wing' take-off and landing performance.
Concept's not new, but able to be practically implemented by distributed electrical propulsion backed by an onboard generator. They point out that 30 airports serve the USA's commercial airline network, but with an ability to operate inside 300 feet, their Electra extends the number of those nodes to nearer 30,000.
Great things apparently come in threes.
The title a riff on Mourning Becomes Electra, last used mostly to reference a number of losses of the Lockheed Electra to wing flutter. I sat in one once at Edinburgh as I ran the night mail... must be the only flight-deck wide enough to require a separate flap-lever within the reach of each pilot.
