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What do you get when you combine some of the finest talent in aerospace engineering, Formula E auto racing, and high-power battery development? The answer is sitting in a hangar two hours west of london at Gloucestershire Airport. Propped on a waist-high platform, a modest 12-foot carbon-fiber airplane chassis with outsized ambition. Once complete, this plane, the centerpiece of Rolls-Royce’s ACCEL initiative, will be different from anything else you might find at Gloucestershire airport – or anywhere in the world, for that matter. It’ll be all electric. Viking Air has released a video that it says describes a new model of a scooping air tanker that could succeed the CL-