Beta Takes Conventional-Takeoff-and-Landing Path To Certify eVTOL
Beta’s first Alia prototype, SN1, has flown 386 mi. on a single battery charge in conventional fixed-wing mode.
Credit: Beta Technologies
To allow customers for its electric aircraft to see the vehicle in flight, Beta Technologies puts them in a chase plane to follow its prototype on a test flight. On one of those flights, a customer looked at the aircraft flying ahead and said: “I want that, that thing that’s flying right in front of...
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