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The title is a little misleading: This is not a commercial flight, currently the plane in question is licensed by the FAA as "experimental" specifically exclud
by jascii 7y ago
The title is a little misleading:
This is not a commercial flight, currently the plane in question is licensed by the FAA as "experimental" specifically excluding commercial flights.
Still cool! I think electric might have a great future in short-hop flights.
- CalChris 7y agoLicensed by the FAA in Canada?
- jascii 7y agoGood point. I based myself on an NPR story I heard this morning, I suspect they were referring to its Canadian equivalent.
- nbrempel 7y agoI believe the FAA and TCCA have a bilateral agreement so it very well could be the FAA. https://www.faa.gov/aircraft/air_cert/international/bilateral_agreements/baa_basa_listing/ https://www.faa.gov/aircraft/air_cert/international/bilatera...
- dang 7y agoThe title is now different above because we changed the URL from https://www.bbc.com/news/business-50738983 https://www.bbc.com/news/business-50738983.