All systems go: 1st all-electric seaplane takes moody in B.C.

It was a brief though ancestral moment on a Fraser River on Tuesday morning as Vancouver-based Harbour Air finished a entrance exam flight of what aims to be a world’s initial entirely electric blurb aircraft.

Harbour Air founder and arch executive Greg McDougall took off solo in a splendid yellow retrofitted DHC-2 de Havilland Beaver boyant plane, spent 3 mins in a atmosphere over Richmond, B.C., before encircling behind and alighting in front of a roughly 120 fabricated onlookers and media.

The practice is a initial in what is approaching to be a two-year routine to get a e-plane approved for blurb use. 

Harbour Air assimilated with Seattle-based association MagniX to pattern a e-plane’s thrust system, that is powered by NASA-approved lithium-ion batteries that were also used on a International Space Station. 

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Article source: https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/electric-seaplane-float-plane-test-flight-harbour-air-1.5390816?cmp=rss