ARLINGTON, Wash., - Sustainable travel is the way of the future. In an effort to create methods of transport that lessen the impact of global warming, electric aircrafts have now taken to the sky. In September 2022, the Israeli-founded company Eviation Aircraft rolled out their latest airplane, Alice, Martie Bowser reports for The Charlotte Observer.
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Date goes Here -The electric flyer can move the 11 people and a maximum payload of 2,500 pounds on board at 240 knots to a range up to 650 miles. Eviation says its Alice is the first FAR23 aircraft with a fly-by-wire, fully electronic flight control system with touchscreen displays. Alice is powered by a magniX-manufactured electric motor.
Speaking to CNN Business, Eviation's CEO Gregory Davis spoke about the flight, saying, "We have not seen the propulsion technology change on the aircraft since we went from the piston engine to the turbine engine. It was the 1950s that was the last time you saw an entirely new technology like this come together."
“We’ve actually generated, frankly, terabytes of data with the data acquisition systems that we had on the aircraft, so we’re going to take a couple of weeks actually and review it to see how the aircraft performs versus our models and our analysis,” Davis said. “From there, we’ll understand what we need to do next.”
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