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...
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