Electra Sees eSTOL Technologies Enabling A Future Sustainable Airliner

Electra.aero’s EL-2 Goldfinch and Britten-Norman BN-2 Islander

Electra’s Islander chase plane (on the ground) represents the nine-passenger market the startup is targeting initially.

Credit: Electra.aero
At a sleepy airfield in rural Virginia, a bright yellow airplane leaps off the runway after an improbably short ground roll under the power of eight small electric propellers. Electra.aero’s EL-2 Goldfinch is the size of a Cessna 172, but the startup has big ambitions for the technologies this...
Graham Warwick

Graham leads Aviation Week's coverage of technology, focusing on engineering and technology across the aerospace industry, with a special focus on identifying technologies of strategic importance to aviation, aerospace and defense.

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