An Airplane That Will Get You All-Charged Up
There's no question it will be a few more years before electric aircraft become a common site at small airports. So far, they're mostly based on esoteric one-off airframes optimized for low mass, or modified experimental airplanes. But if there was any doubt they can one day be mainstream, that idea was erased last year by Cessna, which announced at a November 2010 news conference that the aircraft which leads the world in all-time deliveries, the venerable 172 SkyHawk, was the basis for an electric conversion proof-of-concept.
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