Hybrid-Electric Skymaster Completes 297-NM Flight

Cessna 337 Skymaster
A Cessna 337 Skymaster whose forward gas engine was swapped out with an electric motor, completed a 297-nm flight from Camarillo to Hayward, California, in October using its prototype hybrid-electric-powered Electric EEL. The flight took 2 hr., 32 min., averaging 135 mph. Ampaire, the startup behind...

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