Electric Planes, Once a Fantasy, Start to Take to the Skies

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How a small plane’s 16-day trip from Vermont to Florida might foreshadow a new era of battery-powered air travel long considered implausible.
Credit... * Published Nov. 3, 2023Updated Nov. 4, 2023 Chris Caputo stood on the tarmac at Burlington International Airport in Vermont in early October and looked to the clouds in the distance.
He had piloted military and commercial aircraft over a long career, racking up thousands of flight hours, but the trip he was about to take would be very different.
When the journey came to an end in Florida, Beta handed the plane over to the Air Force, which will experiment with it over the next few months.