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December 04, 2010

Electrifying... E-Flight Waiex Logs First Flight

Battery Powered Plane Gets Some Daylight Under Its Wings

Our friends at Sonex Aircraft tell ANN that their E-Flight Initiative proof-of-concept electric-powered Waiex aircraft achieved its first flight Friday, at Wittman Regional Airport in Oshkosh, WI. Piloted by Sonex Founder and E-Flight team leader John Monnett, N270DC made a short hop on runway 27, intended to be a conservative non-pattern flight to break ground-effect and analyze in-flight system performance as the next step in testing. 

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