How Beta Technologies Is Clearing the Runway for Electric Flight

T1Covered by 1 source · first reported by IEEE Spectrum at 28 Oct, 13:00 UTC

In the cockpit of Beta Technologies’ Alia CX300, pilot Chris Caputo steers onto Runway 33 at Patrick Leahy Burlington International Airport in Vermont. Cleared for takeoff, he releases the brakes and nudges the throttle forward. At the back of the aircraft, the five-blade pusher propeller snaps…