A team of French engineers has for the first time ever successfully test-flown an electric plane.
The aircraft, equipped with a 25 HP electric motor and lithium-polymer batteries, conducted a flight of 48 minutes from an airport in southeastern France. The plane is a single-sitter with an unmanned weight of 155 kg and a wingspan measuring nine meters. “This is an exceptional technological breakthrough in the aviation sector,” the engineers said in a statement. The team of five people worked on the project for a year and a half.

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