Heart’s X1 Scales Up Electric Aviation

Heart X1 flying over water

Heart’s battery-powered X1 conducted a 27-min. first flight from Plattsburgh, New York.

Credit: Heart Aerospace
It has become commonplace for startups to build subscale flying demonstrators both to prove their designs and to convince investors of their ability to perform as a team. But taking a full-scale airframe built for ground testing and converting it into a flying demonstrator is rare. That is what...
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